Incidence of adverse drug reaction (ADR) in ruminants in various parts of Maharashtra

Abstract

For better understanding the drug safety program, reporting of the adverse drug reaction and adverse drug events are quite well organized in the human pharmacovigillance in India. Many aspects of the ADR/ADE are even unknown to the users of Veterinary medicinal products. Smallest to smallest as well as biggest ADR is to be reported to respective branches of government agency. Sudden exposure to complicated guidelines may leads to confusion and work intolerance in personals that are handling / using the various veterinary medicinal products for the treatment and betterment of animal health. A step by step understanding is a need of time for the field of veterinary pharmacovigillance (PV), as most of the users of VMP are staying in rural parts of India and may not be that much educated. Hence through interviews from 500 Field Veterinarians, data of last 5 years was analyzed and presented for this paper. Based on the severity on the health of the animals, ADR/ADEs were classified as Minimal, moderate, severe and accidental. Most of the time severe ADR/ADEs leads to death in ruminants.