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JAMMU: The Secretary-cum-Scientific, Director, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India has inducted Prof Dr Vishal R Tandon, from Govt Medical College Jammu as a member of Subject Expert Committee established under Materiovigilance Programme of India (MvPI).
The subject expert committee will help to improve patient safety and welfare of Indian population by monitoring and analyzing adverse events related to medical devices collected at country level, thereby helping the regulatory agency i.e. Drug controller General of India in reducing risk associated with use of medical devices at country level.
It is worth mentioning that Materiovigilance Programme of India was formally launched at Indian Pharmacopeia Commission (IPC), Ghaziabad by the Drugs Controller General India (DCGI) on July 6, 2015. Under MvPI, a total of 174 MDMCs have been identified in the country to report adverse events associated with the use of medical devices, purely on voluntary basis.
Dr Tandon’s nomination as a member of Subject Expert Committee, long experience, expertise and standing in medical device sector will go long and be of great value in full filling mission and mandates of the programme. He is already an Expert Member at CDSCO DCGI, Ministry of Health and family Welfare.