The report of committee under the chairmanship of Prof. Y.K.Gupta has been published by CDSCO. There were three meeting held among the committee members and the committee has also met with the stents manufacturers and associations of stents manufacturers.
In the all the three meeting of the committee, the members has suggested
- not to include coronary stents into NLEM(National List of Essential Medicines) because of concerns over price control.
- There are considerable difference between drugs and medical devices interns of manufacturing process, product characteristic, risk involved, training of doctors and marketing etc. Hence the essentiality criteria used for electing medicines in NLEM might not be applicable for medical devices.
But in the conclusion of the report the committee has recommended that coronary stents should be included in NLEM, which will surely have repercussion on the profits of the manufacturers of coronary stents.
Report of Committee to examine the issues relating to the essentiality of Coronary Stents
