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Publication type: Journal Article

Bhangale V.
Pharma marketing in India: Opportunities, challenges and the way forward
Journal of Medical Marketing 2008 Jun; 8:(3):205–210
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jmm/journal/v8/n3/abs/5050121a.html


Abstract:

India’s pharmaceutical sector is currently undergoing unprecedented change. Much of this is due to the country’s introduction, on 1st January, 2005, of a system of product patents. Both multinational companies and domestic players are examining the prospects offered by the local market as the government moves forward with initiatives aimed at providing India’s more than one billion inhabitants, for the first time, with access to the life-saving drugs they need. A further huge boost to the local market is emerging from the rise of India’s new affluent consumers, who lead more Western-style lives and are demanding innovative drugs to treat the chronic illnesses that these changing lifestyles may produce. India’s leading drug manufacturers are becoming global players, utilising both organic growth, through the gradual development of their business, and mergers and acquisitions as they seek to boost their presence in existing markets and open up new ones. With these opportunities, however, there are huge challenges that require commitment by both industry and government, and unprecedented levels of partnership between them. This paper is as an attempt to put forth these marketing challenges and suggest the way forward for pharma companies in India.

bhangale.vijay@gmail.com

Keywords:
marketing process and challenges, marketing ethics, strategic marketing, therapeutic focus, India

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909