-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With just a day to go before the roll out of goods and services tax (GST) in India from July 1, the country's drug industry fears that there may be a temporary shortage of medicines as many traders and chemists are yet to comply with the norms. Though the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists, which represents over 8 lakh chemists, has assured the government...
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Flawed drug price rules fleeced patients, helped hospitals -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: India's drug pricing rules allow Companies to inflate the maximum retail prices of medicines, including life-saving drugs, costing patients thousands of additional rupees while offering slices of the profits to stockists, chemists, and hospitals. Quotations received by hospitals from drug Companies' representatives offering discounts on maximum retail prices (MRPs) of medicines provide what some doctors and patients' rights advocates say is fresh evidence for excessive profiteering in India's...
More »Livestock economics: No more cows to come home for these farmers -Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express Punjab’s unique cattle breeding-cum-milk sale dairying model is under threat from gau rakshak activism and the Centre’s new animal trading rules. Randhawa and Gill are amongst Punjab’s many dairy farmers who have made the state into a major supplier of not just milk, but also milch animals. Gurdaspur (Punjab): “When there’s no land in our name, how would we now buy or sell cattle? Are they saying we...
More »Farmer protests: Over-reliance on a single crop has cost them dear -Mihir Shah
-Hindustan Times India needs a paradigm shift in agriculture for economic and ecological sustainability Whenever flashpoints are reached, such as the current farmers’ agitation, there is a clamour for immediate palliatives. This is understandable, as those in acute distress need relief. But what we must not overlook are the profound possibilities of reform that such crises open up. Take Madhya Pradesh (MP), the epicentre of the agitation, which best exemplifies the required...
More »Stent prices: Firms, doctors got away with looting -Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Modi government's efforts to cap the price of cardiac stents exposed the nexus between stent Companies and hospitals in looting the public by overcharging them. But no action has been taken against either Companies or hospitals. None of them paid penalties or faced charges for colluding to cheat the public. Contrast this with the US government which has, over the years, fined the three biggest...
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