The government has decided to put a cap on prices of 42 essential medicines used in the treatment of various critical and life-threatening diseases such as tuberculosis cancer and cardiac diseases. As per reports the ceiling prescribed by National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA ) would bring the cost of these essential drugs down by almost 15 %. The NPPA in it notification said it has fixed or revised ceiling prices of 45 scheduled formulations of Schedule-I under Drugs (Price Control) Amendment Order 2016. (Read: Indian pharma to reach new heights but will it be able to maintain quality?) Out of
