PHARMA LITERATI

At a time when major Indian pharma companies are facing fresh heat from United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) on the issue of data integrity violations, Ranjana Pathak, global head, quality, Cipla, has said that senior pharma executives — who put undue pressure on junior employees by not giving them time to do their job which leads to such violations — need to be ‘whacked’. “ People (bosses) don’t give other people (juniors) the time to do their damn job. You know jolly well that you can do only five analysis. But guess what, I will tell you do 15. How are you going to do? Indirectly, what am I telling you? Why is the boss putting undue pressure? The boss is the one who has to be whacked and not that little junior person…why will not there be data integrity (issues) ?” Pathak told The Indian Express at ‘India Pharma 2017’ exhibition on Sunday. “ At the end of the day, the fish smells on the top. It’s the leadership. It is what you will allow. And people are not s...