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Supreme Court seeks details of clinical trials
in country
Monday October 08, 2012 02:10:10 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Monday asked the central government to provide details of
clinical trials being conducted throughout the country, their side
effects and deaths, if any.
The apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice Anil R.
Dave, while asking the central government to furnish the details,
also issued notice to all state governments, seeking to know
whether they were being kept in the loop regarding clinical trials
in their states.
The court wanted to know if the states have any special laws or
regulations to regulate clinical trials.
The court expressed its anguish that these trials related to human
beings, and said, "We are concerned about the lives of human
beings who become subjects of clinical trials unknowingly and
helplessly, pointing to the process of malpractices by doctors and
drug companies."
The court declined to accept the Madhya Pradesh government's plea
that the state government was in the dark about clinical trials
being conducted in the state.
The court said clinical trials were being conducted in government
hospitals by their doctors and found it difficult to accept that
the state government was totally unaware of it.
The court was hearing a Public Interest Litigation by
non-governmental organisation Swasthya Adhikar Manch, which
pointed to clinical trials being conducted in Madhya Pradesh
without patients being aware that they were subjects of such
trials.
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