Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Puducherry, Gujarat, and Punjab were on the higher side of NSQ (4.20 8.82 per cent) whereas, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa, West Bengal, Delhi, Jharkhand and Kerala were on the lower side (0 - 1.97 per cent), the report said.
Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Puducherry, Gujarat, and Punjab were on the higher side of NSQ (4.20 8.82 per cent) whereas, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa, West Bengal, Delhi, Jharkhand and Kerala were on the lower side (0 - 1.97 per cent), the report said.
"There is a need for government procurement agencies to revisit their procurement guidelines with respect to criteria for qualifying the manufacturers.
"The agencies should develop and implement risk-based pre-inspection norms for selection of manufacturers of quality drugs and adopt quality testing of each consignment from NABL- accredited laboratories," the body recommended in the survey.
It also recommended that government warehouses, medical store depots and pharmacies should have adequate storage facilities and provision for temperature and humidity control, sufficient air conditioned space, refrigerators, deep freezers and others along with their annual maintenance contracts.
"These facilities, should be inspected at least once a year by a joint team of CDSCO and State Licensing Authorities (SLA). Alternatively, third party inspections by accredited bodies could be considered, however, this will not be a substitute for regulatory inspections," it said.
The agencies should conduct regular skill development training for the medical store officers, pharmacists and other staff members for handling of drugs, inventory control, good storage and warehousing, it added.
The survey said that none of the samples drawn from airports or seaports were found to be NSQ or spurious.
"All the samples were subjected to test/analysis as per pharmacopoeial requirements in the Central and State Drug Testing Laboratories that have been accredited by National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL).
"This is the largest ever scientifically designed and professionally executed drug survey undertaken in the world for determining the quality of drugs," the health ministry statement said.
A nationwide training in drug survey methodology was imparted at 28 centres across the country to over 1,800 sample drawing officers (SDOs) and representatives of civil society and Pharmacy Council of India (PCI).
A budgetary allocation of Rs 8.5 crores was given by the Health Ministry.
"The methodology of the study covered all major therapeutic categories, highest ever number of drug molecules in any study, entire range of dosage forms dispensed through government as well as retail sources, sampled from the length and breadth of the country using a statistically designed three-stage sampling plan prepared by Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad," the study said.
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