The Drugs Control General of India (DCGI), Dr G N Singh said “the just in time service basically ensures individual healthcare needs are not out of control due to the long regulatory processes with the lifesaving drugs/vaccines gets delayed. We have now started to give spot licenses to individuals under medical emergency who wanted to import a non-regulated but lifesaving drugs/vaccines to India but have approvals in other markets. (Read Also: South East Asian Countries Regulatory Process). Since the service has been launched, CDSCO has seen a better progress in healthcare practices and this also shows our commitment to improve the overall drug regulation in India.”

Another interesting point made by Dr.Singh was CDSCO is planning to expand this service to other categories as well if it was feasible to adopt. Other than this, the service has been extended to obtain NOC (no objection certificate) for conducting BA-BE studies in India. To boost the R & D initiatives of the country, the just in time service has been utilized in full swing. The drug approval process under this category which took 3 – 6 months is now tremendously reduced to below 30 days.