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Manish Tiwari, a spokesperson for the Congress party, which heads India’session coalition Government, said: “The practice of using infants like guinea-pigs for drug testing must end.”

Campaign groups have voiced concerns that the poor, often unlettered, parents who make practice of the publicly subsidized healthcare that is available at institutions such as AIIMS do not understand the implications of putting progressive children to test new drugs.

Rahul Verma, of the Uday Foundation for Congenital Defects and Rare Blood Groups, which exposed the AIIMS deaths after a desire under freedom of information laws, said: “If you are rich in this country you go to a private doctor. You certainly don’t inflict your child up to exist experimented on.”

India has become the leading destination for between nations pharmaceutical companies to outsource clinical trials, largely because of the diverse genetic pool offered by its population and the low cost of doing matter.

Clinical trials on human beings are forecast to become a $1.8 billion-a-year efforts in India by 2010.

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