Abstract

CURRENT PROBLEMS AND FUTURE PROSPECTIVE OF PHARMACOVIGILANCE IN INDIA

Nouratan Singh*, Surya Pratap Singh and Dr. Neeraj Tandan

ABSTRACT

Pharmacovigilance is an integral part and important for clinical research. It continues to play a crucial role, the challenges by the ever increasing range and potency of medicines. Medication safety requires that each drug should be monitored throughout its market life as early detection of its adverse reactions, and lead to alerts that prevent patient harm. While big advancements of the discipline of Pharmacovigilance have taken place in the west, not abundant has been accomplished in India. However, with more clinical research and clinical trials activity being conducted in India, there is an immense need to understand and implement Pharmacovigilance. In India, Pharmacovigilance has progressed from the situation as it was in past, but for different types of problems and limitations progress is yet not very rapid. Therefore awareness is required for improvement of Pharmacovigilance as well as public health. This review is aimed to offer an analytical study of current problems and future aspects of Pharmacovigilance in India. The necessity of implementation of appropriate Pharmacovigilance, its requirements, problems, limitation and the process how it can be more improved have been emphasized. Even admitting Pharmacovigilance is still in its adolescence in India, it is not new to India and still there exists actual bound ability about the discipline.

Keywords: Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacovigilance in India,Future prospective of Pharmacovigilance in India.