Wanted: Regulator for medical devices - pl spread the word to reach the PM

[BNK 24x7]

Day and day out, we hear cases of medical implants not working well and that patents die or have to undergo multiple, painstaking and very expensive corrective surgeries.

One startling observation that we could make out the media reportage is that medical devices market is governed by an archaic Drugs and Cosmetic Act 1940!

As Express reports, the other pitfall of the existing market situation is that despite an estimated 5,000 medical devices being sold in the country — ranging from bone caps, metallic prosthesis, fallopian rings to catheter guide wires — the categories of medical devices “notified” and, therefore, regulated number only 23.

We therefore are asking the governments to come out with a comprehensive, deterrent and effective regulatory system for drugs and devices on the lines of RERA.

Just look at this astounding piece of data: In India, there are an estimated 1.2 lakh knee replacement and around 70,000 hip replacement surgeries annually.

AIIMS alone conducts over 1,500 hip and knee replacement surgeries – 20 per cent of them are revision surgeries. An implant lasts for at least 10 years. But due to surgical errors, many patients have to undergo revision surgery within months… 80 per cent of these surgeries are because of surgical errors, mostly to correct faulty hip implants.

Please sign this petition to PM in the interest of your, my and everybody's health: https://goo.gl/4MKTKPThanks and regards

B N Kumar

Editor-in-Chief: www.iamvigilant.com

Because it's all about 'I'. I am vigilant, you are vigilant; the society is vigilant

[S. Narendra]

Vigilence is the eternal price of Democracy citizens should be willing to pay.This is a great initiative.It should have been sponsored by medical insurance business.

Insurance is another fraud of a business poorly regulated by IRDA.

Wish you success.

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[T.N.Ashok]

i entirely agree with narendra jee and bnk's intiative is commendable.

i have heard horrow stories from inside sources that at a meeting

of top surgeons in a leading hospital chennai last year, the head of 

the hospital told the cardio vascular surgeons that some 100 stents 

for arterial blocks wuld go past the expiry date and the hospital wuld

suffer a loss of some 10 lakhs........ "put the damn implant in every

patient who walks into the hospital with a chest pain ". god knows how

many got these implants done where it was not necessary in the 1st place.

ashok

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