Should inducements... Msg from Jayesh Pandit

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Post from Jayesh......retrieved ... posted for Netrum. Vijay

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Greetings!

This is indeed a very serious issue... and as an interested party in

ensuring safe, efficacious and quality medicines are made available

to

all, i sincerely feel that this is also an issue of

'Pharmacovigilance'.

There are efforts coming from WHO-PSM department that public health

programs are channels to implementing and/or strengthening

Pharmacovigilance.

The fact that there is a campaign for Vita A (and any other

campaigns)

being carried out also needs to involve the Department of

Pharmacovigilance of that country to ensure that once the target

medicine

is given, and the " interested donors/sponsors " have gone back to

their

offices, and pertininet issues following the campaign need to be

looked

into by the pharmacovigilance dept and appropriate steps be taken to

prevent same and similar " problems " at future campaigns.

This i feel is one of the correct way forward in harmonising

the " aims "

of

a mass public campaign.

Jayesh M. Pandit