Although India’s pharmaceutical technology is not advanced. But it doesn’t mean that specific drugs cannot be produced, because as long as the ingredients of the drugs are figured out. can be copied. To put it simply, although India does not have enough pharmaceutical technology to innovate, it does have basic pharmaceutical technology to copy, that is, to produce "copycat drugs". However, India's imitation high-efficiency drugs are not only as effective as genuine drugs, but are also very cheap.
The reason why special drugs produced in developed countries are so expensive is mainly because of patent fees. However, the generic drugs produced in India are pirated, so patent fees cannot be charged, and the price is naturally not high. The Indian saint Gandhi once said: "One of the better world orders in my mind is that medical discoveries are no longer patented, and humans no longer use life and death to make profits." ?
Gandhi’s words were very sentimental and had a major impact on India’s pharmaceutical patent laws. In the last century, India specially promulgated laws on drug patents. The law stipulates that drug patents are only process patents. That is to say, as long as the same pharmaceutical method is not used, even if the drug has the same ingredients and the same efficacy, it is not considered infringement. India relies on this law to legitimately cheat, but it is precisely because of this law that many Indians can afford life-saving medicine.
Of course, India's doing this will definitely trigger the interests of Western countries, and Western countries have been protesting for this. After a long period of struggle, India also began to compromise with the West, strictly prohibiting the production of generic drugs, and finally in The legal situation was finalized in 2005. In the drama "I'm Not the God of Medicine", the protagonist was able to buy generic drugs in the early stage. Later, when he went to India, he found that the owner of the pharmaceutical factory no longer produced generic drugs. The reason was that the new law was also introduced and the Indian government could not stand up to the West. Threats to the country.
However, generic drugs are not extinct in India. There are still places where copycat drugs are produced. Because there is no other way, genuine drugs are too expensive and people are willing to take copycat drugs. Given this situation, it is natural that some people are willing to take risks and continue to produce generic drugs. However, the governments in some parts of India still turn a blind eye to this, because this drug is related to life, and it is actually a choice between love and law.