{"id":23471,"date":"2025-10-27T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23471"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:16:44","slug":"materiovigilance-programme-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/materiovigilance-programme-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Materiovigilance Programme of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Materiovigilance Programme of India:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was launched on July 6, 2015 to <strong>monitor the safety<\/strong> of <strong>medical devices<\/strong> in the country.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to <strong>collect data on medical device<\/strong> related adverse events systematically and scientifically analyze them to aid in <strong>regulatory decisions and recommendations<\/strong> on safe use of medical devices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> To improve Indian <strong>patient safety<\/strong> by monitoring, recording and analysing the root cause of adverse events or risks associated with the use of <strong>medical devices including in-vitro diagnostics <\/strong>by healthcare professionals or patients\/users and suggesting regulatory bodies for appropriate action with the sole intention of improving patient safety.<\/li>\n<li>It is an important program for reporting of adverse events, coordinated analysis etc related to the medical devices including <strong>in-vitro diagnostic devices<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-pharmacopoeia-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC)<\/a> functions as National Coordination Centre (NCC) since 2018.<\/li>\n<li>It is regulated by the <strong>Central Drugs Standards Control Organization (CDSCO).<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical devices consist of electronic equipment, implant, consumables and disposables, surgical instruments and in-vitro diagnostic reagents, among others.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, all medical devices in India are <strong>regulated by the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/drugs-and-cosmetics-act-1940\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940<\/a><strong> and Medical Device Rule, 2017.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>At present, India is 80% dependent on imports for medical devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry: <\/strong>Ministry Of Health and Family Welfare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Drugs Controller General of India<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drugs Controller General of India is the <strong>head of the department of the CDSCO<\/strong> of the Government of India responsible for approval of licences of specified categories of drugs such as blood and blood products, IV fluids, vaccines and sera in India.<\/li>\n<li>DCGI also sets standards for the manufacturing, sales, import, and distribution of drugs in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO)?<\/h3>\n<p>CDSCO is the National Regulatory Authority (NRA) of India for the medical devices industry under the provisions of the Drugs &amp; Cosmetics Rules.It works under the Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/dcgi-calls-for-strict-reporting-of-side-effects-related-to-medical-devices\/article68187080.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DCGI calls for strict reporting of side-effects related to medical devices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materiovigilance Programme of India was launched on July 6, 2015 to monitor the safety of medical devices in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}