Leading generics pharmaceutical company
Vaghela was speaking at the inaugural edition of the ‘CME Summit and Excellence Awards’ organized by the Indian Health and Wellness Council (IHW). Controlling medicine prices through Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 2017 saved at least Rs 12,400 crores, pharma secretary PD Vaghela said on Thursday. Jan Aushadhi stores are also growing steadily in the […]
In line with the government’s vision of affordable and accessible healthcare for all, it would be worthwhile for public and private players to come together and work on a roadmap to resolve some of these teething issues. Siddharth Gadia and Girish Agarwal, Founders, Generico, give an insight 62-year-old Bhagat (name changed upon patient’s request) […]
Hospital records show the same medicines but of branded quality would have cost patients Rs 1.58 crore. EVEN AS major hospitals and doctors in Mumbai have resisted the Centre’s push for prescribing generic medicines, a charitable hospital in Ghatkopar has become the first private facility in the city to switch to generic prescription with […]
The difference in spending by Medicare on brand-name combination medications and the cost of the equivalent generic constituents was an estimated $925 million for 2016, according to results of a study published in JAMA. Additionally, a cumulative savings of $2.7 billion was calculated from 2011 to 2016. Investigators of this retrospective analysis sought to estimate the […]
Centre directs all outlets to display generic medicines separately! The State may soon see supply of generic medicines to patients at all the government-run hospitals thanks to the initiative taken by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation under the Union Health Ministry. The State has entered into an agreement with a public sector company […]
Conceived by the UPA government as “Jan Aushadhi Scheme” in 2008 in order to provide quality medicine at affordable prices to all, the scheme has undergone major revamping and restructuring under the Narendra Modi led NDA government and has become one of the most popular schemes of the current government. The scheme was renamed as […]
Experts believe the move will have little impact given limited production of generic drugs and authority of doctors in prescribing medicines. The government has made it mandatory for all chemists to display generic medicines prominently as a part of a larger push to make health care affordable. A decision in this regard was taken […]
