We know that foreign Pharma companies conducting clinical trials of new drugs in India with out the Governments’s approval.
But for a School to conduct this with out permission from the authorities in unthinkable.
To make it prim and proper the school sends out a circular that it is Voluntary!
What an arrogance!
Story:
A school in Bangalore wants its children in the 6-9 age group to be part of a “clinical trial” that a student of its sister institution is conducting.
The Oxford English School (CISCE), JP Nagar, has sent a letter to parents. In the letter (a copy of which is with TOI), the school has said: “A first-year student of our Oxford Dental College and Hospital, pursuing his MDS, has taken up as part of his dissertation for the topic, ‘Comparison of retention of favourable composite resin and conventional resin based sealant’, which involves as randomized control trial of the patient with 18 months’ follow-up. This exercise is aimed at students of ages 6 to 9 (classes one to four) and is totally free.”
Signed by school principal Alistair M Laporte, the letter further says: “If there is a problem, a follow-up will be taken (up) by him, which will involve placement of cement, without drilling or cutting.” The circular asked parents to send their consent by January 17 and all students were informed by their respective class teachers.
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