National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority to make treatment more affordable by reducing the prices of cheap drugs and equipment

NPPA has capped the trade margin of unnotified formulations of 42 anti-cancer drugs under Trade Margin Rationalization for Oxygen Concentrator, Pulse Oximeter, Blood Pressure Monitoring Machine, Nebulizer, Digital Thermometer and Glucometer.

Delhi government needs to provide cheap treatment and equipment for treatment. For this, the Parliamentary Committee of the Central Government has recommended to the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) to make treatment and equipment cheaper. The committee has asked the NPPA to make extra efforts to implement this arrangement.

Recommendation in the Report of the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers

This initiative will bring scheduled drugs under price regulation. The committee has also ordered to present the information about the steps to be taken by the central government in the matter. These guidelines have been given by the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers (Pharmaceutical Department) in its forty-second report.

Shashi Tharoor-led committee has 21 Lok Sabha members, 9 Rajya Sabha members

The chairman of the committee is Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and apart from this, there are 21 Lok Sabha and nine Rajya Sabha members, including the chairman of the committee. Recently, this committee has presented its detailed report in the Lok Sabha. The committee has asked the Central Government how many proposals are under consideration with the Department of Pharmaceuticals to regulate the prices of non-scheduled drugs. The progress report in this regard should also be presented before the committee.

According to the committee, after the formation of NPPA in 1997, it has been able to regulate only 20 per cent of the drugs in the scheduled drug category, while 80 per cent of the non-scheduled drugs are still below the 10 per cent annual value cap.

Under this approach, NPPA has launched Oxygen Concentrator, Pulse Oximeter, Blood Pressure Monitoring Machine, Nebulizer, Digital Thermometer and Glucometer. Limitation of Trade Margins of Non-Notified Formulations of 42 Anti-Cancer Drugs in February 2019 and subsequently in July 2021 under Trade Margin Rationalization Has decided

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