INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Vijith Gunasekera, Director General/CEO of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) has been recalled to the Health Ministry,
Court enforced the ban on three including Gunasekera, the Director (Supplies Division) of the Ministry of Health Dr
import a batch of substandard human intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG).The product, which was said to have been manufactured by Livealth
India, was imported by a local medicine supplier called Isolez Biotech Pharma AG (Pvt) Ltd
However, the India-based manufacturer has denied having to do anything with this fraudulent activity and has communicated to the NMRA that
it had neither manufactured, supplied nor exported these products to any party.It was found that funds amounting to Rs
130 million had been misappropriated through the unlawful importation of 22,500 vials of IVIG.
