It’s a complex balance - ensuring both the health and safety of employees across operations and uninterrupted availability of medicines - as the coronavirus pandemic ravages countries large and small. The pharma industry in India, like elsewhere, is using a mix of efforts, ranging from the standard work from home advisories and putting digital technology to use to daily temperature checks at sites, to manage business continuity.
Coronavirus Actions: How Pharma In India Is Handling Safety, Business Continuity
Scrip contacted a cross section of pharma firms in India to get a sense of how they are handling the extraordinary work-operations-employee well-being situation amid the coronavirus outbreak. Work from home mandates, deploying digital tools wherever possible, cut-back in field activities and daily temperature checks at sites are some of the initiatives set in motion.
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