By IANS
Patna : The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has demanded death sentence to people involved in the manufacture and sale of counterfeit medicines and setting up of a special cell for detection of spurious drugs.
"The government should treat the manufacturers of fake drugs as murderers. They should be given death sentence," IMA president Ajay Kumar said here Saturday.
He said the fake drugs market in India was worth Rs.700 million and dealt in all kinds of medicines, including life saving drugs and vaccines.
Kumar said that only seven out of the 37 drug testing laboratories across the country were functioning. He also accused some US companies of selling recycled prosthesis in India at cheaper prices.
According to the IMA chief, a few years ago the government had announced that manufacturing spurious drugs would be termed as an attempt at "mass murder" and invite death penalty. But he lamented that nothing had been done till now.