New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals & Fertilisers, Anupriya Patel, launched the India Pharma Archives at the IIMA Healthcare Summit in Ahmedabad on Saturday.

Also present were Punya Salila Srivastava, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and Manoj Joshi, Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals, along with industry leaders and academicians.

Earlier this year, the landmark coffee-table book, The Alchemy of Cure, laid the foundation for the initiative. The India Pharma Archive now expands the story through a growing collection of rare historical material from across the pharmaceutical ecosystem, including company histories and archival collections, films and footage, inter...