India’s New Drugs Department To Be Headed By Price Chairman
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Soon after it was established, India's new Department of Pharmaceuticals named Ashok Kumar, chairman of the Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, as its first secretary. The NPPA is to remain separate from the new department, which otherwise is to handle policy issues relative to the drug-making industry. The government had not yet named an NPPA replacement for Kumar, its longest-serving chairman. The drugs department is charged with oversight of the infrastructure, manpower and skills for the drug sector as well as promoting public-private efforts in related areas. (Click here for more