DCGI flags single-drug malaria pills’ illegal sales

A nationwide ban on the drug was imposed in 2009. BLOOMBERG

- Priyanka Sharma

India's drug regulator has raised an urgent red flag over a threat to the country’s most effective malaria medicines, directing all state drug controllers to immediately trace and stop the manufacturing and sale of oral sin gle-drug artemisinin formulations, the active ingredient used in the country's most potent malaria drugs, two officials said, citing an 8 December order seen by Mint.