Ltd will attend a meeting of the central expert committee that devised the compensation formula for patients affected by its faulty hip implants this week. “We have confirmed our intention to attend the meeting of the central expert committee on 9 January,” said J&J’s medical spokesperson. The government asked the central expert committee to hold further consultations with those who received the faulty J&J metal-on-metal acetabular surface replacement (ASR) hip implants and were unhappy with the current compensation formula. “We have not been given an opportunity to appear before the central expert committee and critical gaps and factual inaccuracies have been allowed to stand uncontested. The government’s move to hold consultations is significant because a group of 70 patients fitted with the faulty implants had also rejected the compensation formula.

Source: Mint January 07, 2019 18:45 UTC