-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...
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GST: Ayurvedic medicines likely to become expensive -Prabhat Nair
-The New Indian Express THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Goods and Services Tax (GST), which is said to benefit Kerala in terms of life saving allopathic drugs, is set to spell doom for ayurvedic medicines and products with the proposed 12 per cent tax slab. With the high tax incidence, ayurvedic products and medicines will be out of reach of the common man. The doctors say most of the drugs used for degenerative diseases, allergy...
More »Himachal professor's idea saves snakebite victims, wows WHO -Anand Bodh
-The Times of India Carrying anti snake venom in ambulances can mean the difference between life and death for snake bite victims. The impact of this practical intervention was observed while transporting snake bite victims to health facilities in 108 emergency ambulance service across the country, which is free of cost. The first documentation of the life-saving innovation, wherein snake bite victims were administered anti-snake venom (ASV) in the emergency ambulance on...
More »Not consulted on scrapping drug pricing agency: Chairman -Vidya Krishnan
-The Hindu New Delhi: Days after it was revealed that the Centre is likely to dismantle the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Agency (NPPA), its chairman said the decision was ‘rushed’ and the agency was not consulted. “There were two meetings and the NPPA was not a party to them. Both meetings were held at short notice. This has been a rushed decision. For any policy change, there needs to be consultation. I understand...
More »Amma medical shops record sale of Rs. 1.17 crore -K Raju
-The Hindu THENI (Tamil Nadu): With a record sale of medicines, Amma Medical shop has become very popular among people in the district. It had sold medicines worth Rs.1.17 crore in the last two years, according to Collector N. Venkatachalam. In a press release here on Tuesday, he said that medicines were sold to more than 50,710 beneficiaries including 35,210 beneficiaries in Chinnamanur, 9,000 in Bodi, 6,500 in Periyakulam and the rest...
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