Intas Becomes the First to Launch Romiplostim in India, Significantly Reducing the Treatment Cost of Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)

/ -- One of India's leading pharmaceutical companies, Intas Pharmaceuticals, takes a revolutionary step towards making therapy for chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) more accessible to patients by being the first to launch Romiplostim in India under the name Romy
Dr. Mammen Chandy, Director of Tata Medical Center, Kolkata and Padma Shri award winner, shared his views on this landmark launch, saying, "Romiplostim's introduction in India will help clinicians immensely as it will add to their therapeutic armamentarium in managing thrombocytopenia due to Chronic ITP and Bone Marrow failure. Even in patients developing hepatotoxicity due to Eltrombopag, Romiplostim will be considered as a choice of treatment."

Talking more about the launch, Dr. MB Agarwal, one of the leading haematologists in the country, said, "Romiplostim is an injection given below the skin (like insulin) once a week which was available in U.S., Europe and Australia for almost a decade but was never marketed in India. Patients were using an oral pill - Eltrombopag on a daily basis at the cost of almost 2,750 per day. With Intas, Romiplostim's cost for treating chronic ITP will come down by almost six times. Approved for ITP, this drug may be used by clinicians as per their discretion for managing low platelet counts due to other reasons as well."

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