COVID-19 has led to an increase in the demand for personal protective equipment (PPEs) in the country. This has led to the provision of inauthentic and fraudulent certificates provided by PPE suppliers to purchasers, including government procurement agencies. According to accrediting agencies and market sources, this course of action has put the frontline healthcare workers’ lives at risk. The Indian market is full of private certification bodies which issue fake certificates to industries. It is difficult yet important to distinguish an authentic certificate from the inauthentic and fake ones. ‘The quality of PPE is at Centre stage now. The union health ministry has also specified standards and reports acceptable from national and international organizations and labs which has led to all kinds of certificates in the market, most of them inauthentic and some may even be fraudulent,’ says Anil Jauhri, former CEO, National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB). How can we ...
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