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Govt allows pharma cos to hike prices of 509 essential drugs from april 1st.2015

Medicines are life line for us.
the medicine's cost the patients almost 40% of the treatment cost .
yet our govt policies are not conducive to affordability & quality of drugs to the common man.

Is it true that  the cost of 509 essential medicines used for treating various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis and cancer  and condoms and even Amoxicillin  is   hiked by 3.84 per cent with effect from April 1-2015?.

yes.

At present, how many formulation's prices  are capped by the government through Drug Price Control Order (DPCO), 2013.?

680 formulations, with effect from May 15, 2014, of 

these there are  348 essential medicines.

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