The medicine price regulator, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), has found a price fixing mechanism suggested by its parent ministry, chemicals and fertilisers, has failed to meaningfully lower the prices of key cancer medicines.
A group of ministers (GoM) headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar is expected to meet soon to finalise a pricing policy on drugs.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/price-control-not-working-cancer-drugs
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/joe-c-mathew
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-standard-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drugs
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cancer
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-chemicals-and-fertilizers
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/supreme-court
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-agriculture
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health
