The present situation of Covid-19 has resulted in increased demand of medical oxygen up to almost four times from 750 MT per day to around 2,800 MT per day, the Ministry said
The NPPA had allowed firms to take a 10 per cent hike for their knee implant products last year
The government on Thursday said aprice monitoring and resource unit (PMRU) has been set up in Karnataka under the aegis of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)
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The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) invoked the para 32 (ii) of the Drug Price Control Order, 2013 to grant the exemption to the indigenously developed stent
Glenmark had appealed to the pricing regulator in 2016 asking for a differential price for its Digihaler
Govt should not control drug prices
The prices of APIs have gone up in the range of 5-88%
The strong performance of the sector is in line with our expectations: Icra
The NPPA notified the ceiling price of orthopaedic knee implants on 16th August, 2017
The NPPA website notes that the amount still under litigation is around Rs 4,084.05 crore
Govt decides to have bureaucracy set drug prices
This is in order to monitor the price movement of 19 medical devices out of 23 medical devices notified as drugs under the Drugs and Cosmetics Acts
The formulations with fixed retail prices include Telmisartan and Chlorthalidone Tablet used in treating high blood pressure marketed by Sun Pharma
The steps are in continuation of the government's drive to make affordable quality medicines available to patients
Setting up of an advisory committee has been a long-standing demand of the industry
On February 13, NPPA had capped the price of drug-eluting stents at Rs 29,600
Total number of formulations under the price control since April 2016 has reached around 760
Currently, the government monitors the price movement of 19 medical devices
It has fixed the price of P-PPi-L capsules which are used for treating acidity