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Gujarat FDCA sets up new district office at Ahmedabad headed by assistant commissioner
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Shardul Nautiyal, Mumbai
June 24 , 2017
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In order to enforce effective compliance of drugs and medical device
rules, Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) has opened a
new office at Ahmedabad on the West of Sabarmati river front which will
be headed by assistant commissioner (Drugs) assisted by a team of 35
senior drug inspectors including drug inspectors and assistant drug
inspector.
As of today, there are 26 district offices out of 33
districts in Gujarat with 26 assistant commissioners, 4 joint
commissioners, 5 deputy commissioners, 49 senior drug inspectors and 89
drug inspectors with FDCA Commissioner at the helm of affairs.
The
state regulator had earlier recruited a total of 42 drug control
officers with opening of a new district office at Rajkot in the
Saurashtra region headed by an assistant commissioner for better
enforcement of drug laws in the state.
Rajkot is one of the
biggest in the seven districts of Saurashtra region. There are in total
three testing laboratories in the state, two dedicated food testing
laboratories in Rajkot and Bhuj respectively and one state of the art
food and drug testing laboratory at Vadodara. Another one is likely to
come up at Patan for which building has already been constructed and
will soon start with help from the Central Drugs Standard Control
Organisation (CDSCO). The Centre will bear 75 per cent of the cost as
part of lab upgradation programme and the rest 25 per cent will be borne
by the state government.
The existing food and drug testing
laboratory in Vadodara has the capacity to test 7,500 drug samples
annually, of which the lab currently tests around 6,000 to 6,500 samples
in a year. With this capacity building measure, the new drug testing
lab will be able to augment its capacity of drug testing and sampling to
ensure access to safe drugs across the state.
Meanwhile, Gujarat
government has also formed a committee to oversee recruitment of
manpower for the state National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)
cell for effective detection of ceiling price violations in drugs and
devices. A total of seven personnel including a scientific officer will
be deputed for the purpose of collection of data on price violations in
the state based on the much awaited financial support from the Central
government.
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