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Union minister of chemical and fertilizers, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya urged the Indian pharmaceutical industry to produce medicines and bring innovative research with the goal of ensuring good health and well-being of the people, not only commercial purposes, while praising them for continuously producing quality products. The government has also launched the Integrated Pharmaceutical Database Management System 2.0 (IPDMS 2.0) and Pharma Sahi Daam 2.0 App today.
Addressing the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), here today, the Minister and Bhagwanth Khuba, minister of state for chemicals & fertilizers and new & renewable energy praised the Authority for serving the country and working as a facilitator to the industry.
Addressing the event, Mandaviya congratulated NPPA for working more as a facilitator, not merely as a regulator. He highlighted their noteworthy contribution towards ensuring availability and affordability of medicines in the last 25 years.
He assured Indian pharma companies of continuous support from the government. He highlighted the production linked incentive (PLI) 1 and PLI 2 schemes for the industries, which has helped in bringing about indigenous manufacturing of many critical APIs in the country. He also recalled the positive contribution of Indian pharma companies during the Covid crisis and highlighted the importance of cooperation and collaboration between the govt and industry in bringing quality healthcare to the masses
Bhagwanth Khuba praised NPPA for being in service of the country and the pharma sector successfully for the last 25 years. He stated that “NPPA ensures availability of affordable medicines without harming the interests of the industry”. He also expressed his optimism that with the launch of the two applications today, NPPA is expected to further carry on its work in a smooth and efficient manner in the coming years”.
The event also witnessed the launch of Integrated Pharmaceutical Database Management System 2.0 (IPDMS 2.0) and Pharma Sahi Daam 2.0 App.
The IPDMS 2.0 is an integrated responsive cloud based application developed by NPPA with technical support from Centre for Advance Computing (C-DAC). It is envisaged to optimize synergies in operations in order to promote Government’s thrust on ‘Ease of Doing Business’ as it would provide a single window for submissions of various forms as mandated under Drug Price Control Order (DPCO),2013. It would also enable paperless functioning of NPPA and facilitate the stakeholders to connect with the National Pharma Pricing Regulator from across the country.
Pharma Sahi Daam 2.0 App will have updated features like speech recognition; availability in Hindi and English; share button and bookmarking medicines. This version of Pharma Sahi Daam also has a facility for launching complaints by consumers through the consumer complaint handling module. The App will be available in both iOS and Android versions.
A publication titled ‘An overview of Drug Pricing@NPPA 25 year Odyssey’ was also launched at the inaugural session. The publication chronicles not only the 25 year journey of NPPA but also highlights the evolution of the drug regulatory system in the country with special emphasis on pricing regulation.
Earlier, Kamlesh Pant, chairman, NPPA had delivered the welcome address. Ms S Aparna, Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals,and Dr. Vinod Kotwal, Member Secretary, NPPA were present at the event.
Stakeholders from the pharmaceutical and MedTech devices industry, Central and State Governments, Price Monitoring and Resource Units, Civil Society, patient advocacy groups, Pharmaceutical Research and Academic Institutions, Think-Tanks also participated in the event.
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