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In a breakthrough for India’s pharmaceutical sector, firms including Hetero, Cipla, Annora, and Natco have won Chinese government bids to supply generic drugs like Dapagliflozin and Olaparib, marking a significant entry into China’s tightly controlled healthcare market

After NMC India put their guidelines for doctors that mandated them to prescribe only generic and not branded drugs on hold, Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips posted about his testing on medicines.

In a statement, the association said that if doctors are not allowed to prescribe branded drugs, then why such drugs should be licensed at all

Prescribing generic drugs without quality would be detrimental to patients, IMA members said.

The National Medical Commission in its 'Regulations relating to Professional Conduct of Registered Medical Practitioners" also asked doctors to avoid prescribing branded generic drugs

Soon after the outbreak, the industry quickly adapted to the supply chain needs and manpower scenario and got into making generic drugs and vaccine development.

GWMC Additional Commissioner Ch Nageshwar, said people generally were not keen on using generic drugs compared to branded ones.