Prepared To Do Anything To Change

Recent media reports say the new programme to be introduced by the company will support patients who have been implanted in India with its ASR hip implant from June 2004 to August 2010.The investigations cover coronary stents, pacemakers, hip implants, knee implants, breast implants, pelvic meshes and intrauterine devices. The Indian unit of the global pharma giant has been forced to initiate a new “India-specific” reimbursement programme for those Indian patients who have suffered due to its Acetabular Surface Replacement (ASR), or hip implants. But desperation fuelled by celebrity culture, use of unrealistic images in advertising, social media have led to an environment where many are prepared to do anything to change his/her looks.Not all surgeries which have come under the scanner are cosmetic procedures.In India, patients have suffered either because the devices were faulty or the person doing the surgery didn’t have the requisite qualifications for the task, or both.

In India, China custom bandage factory the data on faulty and devices which have had to be recalled are not typically put out in the public domain, adding to the problem. That must not happen. Will it be a junior doctor or a senior doctor who will conduct the operations and is the doctor qualified to carry out the surgery he/she is conducting, as health analyst Anant Bhan asks. The harsh truth is that in our excitement about the growth of this industry, we have overlooked that India trails behind many other countries in the rigour of reporting faults in medical devices. Patients who have suffered are often reluctant to go public, and typically go in for “revision surgeries” to deal with botched operations, often conducted with dodgy devices. The documents that the reporters have unearthed are now part of a searchable new database — the International Medical Devices Database.