The CTRI is a database of more than 45,000 registered clinical trials that is entirely paperless. Now, it has been revealed that the clinical trial registry ‘doesn’t exist’ and that ‘ghost staff’ runs the tests.
Officially, the Clinical Trial Registry of India (CTRI) no longer exists because there has been no formal order prolonging its functioning beyond June 30, 2022. CTRI's existing personnel has likewise been awarded no additional extensions, while the ostensibly non-existent ghost staff has registered over 1,060 clinical studies from July 1 to August 5, reports The Times Of India.
CTRI is still receiving a large number of requests for clinical trials even though the government is fighting to have the employees who have run it for the past 16 years regularized. If the registry stops working, trials costing billions of rupees could be delayed.
The CTRI is a database of more than 45,000 registered clinical trials that is entirely paperless. It is accessible to the pu...