India is just one of many developing countries used by leading Western pharmaceutical companies, which spent £40bn in 2010 on research and development. Globally, it is estimated around 120,000 trials are taking place in 178 countries.
India
- 668 deaths were reported in 2010
- 438 in 2011
- 211 deaths till June 2012
In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said a total of 1,954 persons died from 2009 till June 2012 due to “serious adverse events of death” in clinical trials.
- South Korea – 2,861
- China – 2,520
- Taiwan – 2,367
- Brazil – 2,521
- Russia – 1,776
- India – 1,727
- Mexico – 1,488
- South Africa – 1,346
- Argentina – 1,223
- Puerto Rico – 1,231
- Thailand – 958
- Turkey – 893
- Romania (876)
- Ukraine – 722
- Chile – 663
- Peru (494)
- Phillipines – 487
- Iran – 387
- Egypt – 274
- Uganda – 163
- Malawi (61)
- Kazakhstan (15)
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