NMC Mandate Enrolment of Medical Colleges as ADR monitoring centers under PvPI
Aiming to uplift regulatory standards for the overall collection, analysis and monitoring of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) from the Public, National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed all medical colleges, standalone PG Institutions to enrol themselves as Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Centers with the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) under the Pharmacovigilance Program of India (PvPI) at the earliest.
Indian Pharmacopoeia is functioning as the National Co-ordination Centre, Pharmacovigilance Programme of India to collect, analyse and monitor the adverse drug reactions from the Indian population to promote Patient Safety and Safeguard the health of patients by ensuring that the benefits of the use of medicines outweigh the risk associated with its use
The collected ADRs data is a significant source of evidence of recommendations of regulatory interventions regarding the safety of medicines to the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO)
In order to achieve the above objective, IPC has so far enrolled 652 Adverse Drug Monitoring Centres (AMCs).
In the 22 nd Meeting of the Governing Body of India Pharmacopoeia Commission held on 14.10.2022 under the chairmanship of the Secretary (HFW) it has been decided that all Medical colleges/ hospitals under the National Medical Commission should also be enrolled as AMCs with IPC.
Accordingly, all Medical colleges/hospitals under the National Medical Commission are directed to get themselves enrolled with Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) as AMCs at the earliest.
Source:https://medicaldialogues.in/
