Indore: The ‘ghost’ of unethical drug trials may return to haunt the doctors involved in it as questions pertaining to subject will be raised in upcoming session of state assembly. Sources said three questions regarding drug trials will be raised in the assembly.
With change in government after 15 years in the state, the issue of drug trial, which claimed many lives and caused permanent disabilities, will resurface. The state medical education department has sought information from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College about doctors involved in drug trials between 2005 and 2010.
“We have sent the information to department,” MGM Medical College dean Dr Jyoti Bindal said. Thousands of illegal drug trials were conducted by the government doctors between 2005 and 2010. The whistleblowers in the case alleged that more that 81 people died or were adversely affected.
Medical Council of India had suspended registration of eight doctors in the case for three months in 2017 but court stayed their suspension. The doctors who were allegedly involved in unauthorised drug trials were Dr Abhay Paliwal, Dr Hemant Jain, Dr Ramghulam Razdan, Dr VS Pal, Dr Pali Rastogi, Dr Ujjwal Sardesai, Dr Salil Bhargava, Dr Apoorva Puranik, Dr Ashok Bajpai, Dr Anil Bharani, Dr Pushpa Verma and Dr Ashish Patel.
