70th Ipc To Add Healthcare And Diagnostic To Its Spectrum

This year’s IPC is going to have nearly 100 speakers and they are the cream of the industry. Few of them will be international speakers.

- Usha Sharma

WITH JUST one months left for the 70th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress (IPC), preparations for the event are in full swing, informed committee members of IPC in its third Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Association (IPCA) meeting held recently in Mumbai.

The meeting commenced with a welcome address by Dr TV Narayana, General Secretary, IPCA wherein he thanked all the members who had joined the meeting. He especially thanked Dilip Shanghvi, President, IPCA and Founder, Sun Pharma. The meeting proceeded with a remark raised by Shanghvi that apart from pharma and academia, there is a greater need for the machinery manufacturers’ fraternity to be part of this edition of the IPC.

BR Sikri, LOC’s Chairman informed that this year’s IPC is also focussing on the healthcare sector. Dr Naresh Trehan, Chairman and Managing Director of Medanta – The Medicity, will be the special invitee on December 21 to launch the healthcare chapter at the 70th IPC. The event will also witness attendance by leading experts of the pharma, healthcare and diagnostics segments. He also informed that a Bhoomi Poojan will be held at the venue, Amity University campus, to initiate IPC work in November.