India notifies first policy on rare diseases

India notifies first policy on rare diseases The policy comes over three years after the health ministry formulated a National Policy for Treatment of Rare Diseases in July 2017 but kept it in abeyance. In the new policy, formulated after detailed stakeholder consultations, 'rare diseases' have not been defined but classified into three groups based on expert opinion. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J