Drug Information service a long felt dream of the President Sri Gundu Rao D.A. became a reality with the establishment of Drug Information Center’ under the Council in August 1997 and is successfully running on its 14th year.

• It has been providing unbiased drug information to healthcare professionals including Students and Professional pharmacists and the medical practioners.
• The high light of this service is that lay public too has been seeking information on various aspects of medication and to sort out their doubts and confusion.
• Being a typical DIC independent of the hospital, it is catering to about 30 to 50 queries per month.
• Seminars, workshops and training programs to the pharmacists, healthcare professionals including doctors are held often in the council.
• The DIC is now renamed as ‘DRUG INFORMATION & RESEARCH CENTER’ (DIRC) to widen and deepen the scope of its activities.
• The DIRC has plans to communicate the information’s like banned drugs through sms to their mobile phone and also through email.