Mumbai: In a bid to avoid incidents like Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) hip-implant fiasco, Indian authorities and manufacturers are planning to set up a streamlined feedback mechanism for such medical devices. The health authorities at the centre is also developing such process. Talking to Free Press Journal, Sudhakar Mairpadi, head- Quality, Regulatory and Government affairs, Philips India, said, “We can go on debating on this (Johnson and Johnson hip-implant) subject to what has happened. But the best thing for the government and manufacturers to do is, to have a feedback mechanism.
Mairpadi added that in terms of feedback collection, India is a poor country. “But we need to push and create awareness for the need to create such feedbacks.” He said that there are plans to have a data centre step up either with help of Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) or Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), to analyse the feedback of patients, doctors and manufacturers (the feedback will be collected broadly in these three stakeholders). He said, “The feedback goes into a central system and that will be analysed. Further, it will be sent to the authorities and manufacturers informing them about the issue.” The centres will collect all data and will be processed. “All these issues will be segregated and channelled and the necessary changes will be implemented.”
