Health generic drugs - new drug already may be being misused?by doctors in India?

Health generic drugs - new   drug already being misused?by doctors in India?

Some private doctors have already started prescribing bedaquiline drug to their patients by importing it.

Bedaquiline was the first TB drug to be discovered in more than 40 years, and the first one specifically for multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). MDR-TB arises when the M. tuberculosis bacteria become resistant to two commonly used first-line TB drugs — isonazid and rifampicin.

But less than six months after FDA approved the drug under its accelerated approval programme, is the drug a potential candidate for misuse by doctors in India? Will it in any way result in patients developing drug resistance?

It is too early to say this with any certainty, but the system in India appears to have the perfect conditions to make this possible. The drug is yet to be approved for use in India, and WHO and India have not yet drawn up guidelines to help doctors treat MDR-TB patients with this drug.

But some private doctors here have already started prescribing this drug to their patients by importing it.

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