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MUMBAI: In a move that will disappoint many patients, the government has withdrawn certain powers of the drug pricing regulator that allowed it to cap prices of widely prescribed anti-diabetes, cancer, HIV, tuberculosis and cardiac medicines.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) said it is withdrawing "with immediate effect" — a guideline that had allowed it to put price caps on crucial medicines — to comply with a government "direction". The guideline had been issued on May 29, just three days after the Modi government was sworn in.

Although the NPPA's sudden notification does not mention whether it is revoking the price caps which it had announced on 50 anti-diabetic and cardiac drugs in July, the development could have negative fallout, sources said. A wider and more serious impact will be that impending price controls on expensive treatments of cancer, HIV and tuberculosis now stand cancelled.

Source http://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/Government-curbs-power-of-regulator-to-cap-HIV-cancer-drug-prices/articleshow/43276718.cms

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NEW DELHI: Congress has warned that life-saving drugs would become costlier after the Modi government's decision to withdraw the authorisation to drugs regulator to check any spike in prices.

It accused PM Narendra Modi of kowtowing to the international pharma sector that has been opposing the circular issued by UPA in May 2013 to empower the National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) on pricing.

Reports said the Centre withdrew the circular earlier this month. "PM Modi has extracted a very heavy price from the country's poor and ailing for his public relations exercise with the US," Srikant Jena, former Union minister who issued the said circular in the UPA govenrment, told reporters.

Jena said after the UPA's directive, the NPPA had brought down prices of a broad spectrum of 108 life saving drugs like an anti-cancer drug from Rs 11,500 to Rs 5900, of blood pressure drugs from Rs 128 to Rs 92, one particular tablet from Rs 1615 to Rs 147, an injection from Rs 7000 to Rs 2670 among others.

Now that the circular has been withdrawn, the drug companies would increase the prices to the original levels, warned Jena.

"While this move will get Modi good PR and earn the corporate houses undeserved profits, the common man will be left devastated by the sheer insensitivity of this move," he said, noting that India has about 4.1 crore patients with diabetes, 4.7 crore with coronary heart disease, 22 lakh with TB, 11 lakh with cancer and 25 lakh with HIV.

Jena said the UPA government overcame tremendous pressure from the pharma lobby to issue the authorisation to the NPPA.

"Modi is carrying to America as gift the hard-earned money of the country's poor. The beneficiaries of this unprecedented anti-people move are only going to be the American pharma giants, Indian drug manufacturers and the US administration," the former minister said.

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Reversal-of-UPA-order-will-raise-critical-drug-prices-Congress/articleshow/43580751.cms

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babu still akkada prescribe chesina daniki generic medicines are still available under normal price norms....


EE vishayam eevvvadu cheppatledu.....


Avi life saving drugs generics vundav
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