Fake Antibiotics & Painkillers Flood Rajasthan Market: Probe Reveals Wide-Scale Spurious Drug Crisis
A silent health crisis is unfolding in Rajasthan, where hundreds of medicines have failed quality tests many only after they had already reached patients. The revelation comes on the heels of the state government suspending its drug controller over the recent cough syrup deaths, sparking fears of a deeper, systemic problem in India’s pharmaceutical oversight .
Documents reviewed by India Today TV reveal that in the past year alone, hundreds of drug samples in Rajasthan have failed laboratory tests. The failed samples include essential antibiotics, anti-allergics, painkillers, and anti-diabetic drugs medicines used daily by thousands of patients. The worrying part: most of these drugs were already sold in large numbers before the test results declared them substandard.
Some of India’s most commonly used medicines were among the failed samples. Six batches of antibiotics Amoxicillin, Clavulanic Acid, Ciprofloxacin, Cefpodoxime, and Ceftriaxone injections did not meet quality standards, even after over one lakh units from Medirich Ltd had been sold. Steroid Betamethasone also failed in three batches, with more than 30,000 tablets from Medivel Biotic already in circulation before the test results were released.
Documents reviewed by India Today TV reveal that in the past year alone, hundreds of drug samples in Rajasthan have failed laboratory tests. The failed samples include essential antibiotics, anti-allergics, painkillers, and anti-diabetic drugs medicines used daily by thousands of patients. The worrying part: most of these drugs were already sold in large numbers before the test results declared them substandard.
Some of India’s most commonly used medicines were among the failed samples. Six batches of antibiotics Amoxicillin, Clavulanic Acid, Ciprofloxacin, Cefpodoxime, and Ceftriaxone injections did not meet quality standards, even after over one lakh units from Medirich Ltd had been sold. Steroid Betamethasone also failed in three batches, with more than 30,000 tablets from Medivel Biotic already in circulation before the test results were released.
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