Cancer, blood pressure, 54 other drugs to get cheaper by 55%

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New Delhi: The government has decided to cut the price of 54 drugs by up to 55% to make treatment of acute but common diseases in India affordable to more people, a Times of India report said.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has decided to cut the price of 54 drugs, including the medicines for blood pressure, brain and breast cancer, hypertension, diabetes, antibiotics and heart disorders.

The move will be effective immediately.

There are 875 drugs on the regulator's National List of Essential Medicines, 2015, after it was revised in December last year. So far, the price of 280 drugs on the list have been capped.

@Agency report.



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