hip-implants causing them grievous
pain, suffering and injury. It had
shut-down its ASR helpline in 2017.
It had reached only 275 patients in
India out of 4,500 patients
implanted with its faulty ASR hip-
implants; and has fanded for their
revision surgeries. But it has not
paid compensation even to a
single patient.
Moreover it has been arguing
that it has been unable to reach
the patients since their information
has not been provided to it by the
joint registry of hip-implantation
established by the Indian Society
of Hip and Knee Surgeons (ISHKS).
Such an argument is not
maintainable and holds no water
since it can obtain the data and
trace the patients from the
distributors of ASR Hip implants
sold by them. The Indian
authorities as usual have
intentionally failed to challenge the
unsubstantiated argument of J&J to
the detriment of the interests of the
aggrieved patients.
Even the medical profe-
ssionals who ought to be the gate
keepers of health care system had
failed to be the guardians of
patient’s interest, by remaining
silent.
All parties concerned the J&J,
the regulators, doctors, hospitals
and consumer groups have failed
in their responsibility to bring justice
to the suffering patients.
As Mr.Zagde, the erstwhile
commissioner of FDA of
Maharashtra explains, this sheer
negligence of CDSCO the
governmental regulator reflects
the “deep-seated necrotic rot
commandeered by the pharma-
ceutical industry” totally controlled
by the transnational corporations
is correct.
While the company has its
commercial motive of earning
super profits, the doctor were afraid
of back-lash that they might had to
face if they had willingly revealed
that the implant has chosen was a
faulty one. The deep routed doctor-
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pharma nexus, huge kick backs on
devices and pharma sponsorship
for conferences and seminars had
kept the doctors to be silent about
the faulty ASR hip-implants of J&J
subsidiary making them indifferent
to the interests of their patients;
Despite over 6000 doctors have
discussed widely about the issue
during their annual conference of
Indian orthopedic Association (IOA)
in 2016.
The clout of J&J with the Indian
rulers and governmental regulatory
agencies made them to be
knowingly and willfully negligent of
their responsibility to bring justice
to the aggrieved suffering patients.
From the time of Bhopal gas
disaster all along the rulers and
governments are in active service
of the interests of the criminal
transnational corporations of
imperialism, at the cost of lives of
people of India exposing their
comprador class nature to their
imperialist masters.
This has been the root-cause
of this necrotic sort comman-
deered by the Johnson & Johnson
company in pharmaceoutical
sector. Serving to the interests of
imperialism even at the cost of lives
of Indian people has been the class
nature inherent in the Indian
system.
Unless and until this rotted
system of governance is uprooted
and replaced with a socialist
system without exploitation,
inequality and private property, it
is highly impossible to arrest such
loot practiced by the Johnson &
Johnson Company on its patients
or other imperialist trans-national
companies in India for that matter.
People of India must be made
aware of the machinations and
crimes practiced by imperialist
transnational companies in looting
them besides making them aware
and conscious of the very necessity
of rooting out the rotted present
day system of anti-people interests
and establishing a people’s
democratic system in our country.
This task has to be taken
immediately by all whose objective
in people’s interests, particularly at
the present time where the
protection of laws is made more
important than the protection of the
people and their lives!
contd from page 21 hastened depending upon who
came to the power at the centre.
The demand for a dedicated
and impartial agency to investigate
the cases of corruption and criminal
acts at high level will remain as a
pipe dream, given the money
power that dictates the policies of
the government and political
parties. The Lok Pal Bill is one such
pipe dream. Every political party
pledges to enact the Bill; but it had
not come into existence even
though political power changed
from one set of parties to other. The
Supreme Court may decide the
legal validity of the action
purportedly taken by the central
government, but no corrective
action would be fruitful in stopping
the political influence on CBI as the
entire political system has rotten to
the core.
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criticized the CBI for allowing the
prime accused, the Jain brothers,
to abscond. It is a well known fact
that the CBI was ordered by PMO
not to press for the extradition of
the prime accused in the Bhopal
Gas disaster, Warren Anderson. (In
fact he was escorted by the Chief
Minister of MP to airport to leave
the country).
The prime accused in the
Bofors case was never made to
come to India and who finally
benefited from the deal was never
revealed, all under pressure of
Prime minister’s office.
The CNI’s role in the escape
of Vijay Mallya is well known. The
progress of many of cases involving
political leaders like fodder scam,
St.Kitts etc either slowed down or