New policy & patented drugs Buzz from India

Aug. 9, 2012 - PRLog -- "After almost a decade of preparing notes and drafts, officials in the Department of Pharmaceuticals could come out with a draft proposal for a new drug pricing policy last month. That has at least put an end to the continuing uncertainty on the policy front. But it is an incomplete draft in many ways. However, some section of the pharmaceutical industry welcomed the proposals in the draft but healthcare experts and patients groups find it rather deficient in many aspects."
      
The disease profile of the country has drastically changed over the years with lifestyle diseases have turned into major killers of the people in the country today. Yet, most of the drugs for diabetes, hypertension, cancer, cholesterol and mental disorders remained outside the price control as the government failed to bring them under price control periodically. The new draft proposal seeking to bring 348 drugs under price control as against 74 in the 1994 policy is definitely a welcome move".

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