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India needs to restore faith in ‘the world’s pharmacy’
The country will never be a true export power if customers cannot trust the safety and efficacy of its medicine
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Without Indian-made generics, pharmacies across the world would be much emptier.
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Mihir Sharma
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Indians have long been proud of their pharmaceutical sector. It’s a big exports earner in a country that cannot have too many.
It boasts a number of well-regarded, profitable companies. And its exports to other developing countries allow us to think of ourselves as benefactors, and therefore leaders, of the Global South.
