New Delhi: Clinical trials for testing new drugs and therapies at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has claimed as many as 49 babies over the last two and a half years.
Many of them had not even celebrated their first birthday. AIIMS response to a Right to Information query revealed, that of the 4,142 babies, close to 3,000 were below the age of one and were enrolled for clinical trials by the institute's department of paediatrics.
The department conducted 42 sets of trials on babies during the period beginning January 1, 2006.
In its reply, AIIMS said the deaths amounted to a 1.18 per cent mortality rate. The cost of conducting trials in India is 20 per cent to 60 per cent of the cost in industrialised countries.
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