NEW DELHI: Mothers undergoing clinical trials which harm their unborn child may soon be able to demand compensation from researchers conducting the clinical trials.

According to Indian Council of Medical Research’s draft guidelines for compensation to participants for research related injury in India, “compensation will have to be paid to a child injured in-utero through the participation of the parent in clinical research.”The draft says compensation has to be paid, irrespective of whether injury was foreseeable/predictable or not and the fact that the research participant had consented in writing about participating in the research study.

Source : Times of India

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