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  Paracetamol, Azithromycin, other essential medicines to cost 10% higher from April 10 | Details

  Business | March 26, 2022 16:58 IST

  The prices of nearly 800 scheduled medicines on the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) will cost higher, as per changes in the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for the calendar year 2021.

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  Economic Survey: Drugs price control has led to increase in price of regulated medicines

  Business | January 31, 2020 16:25 IST

  In India, the government has historically relied on price controls to regulate the prices of pharmaceutical drugs through the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) and Drug (Prices Control) Order, said the Survey.

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  No increase in prices of essential medicines: Centre

  Politics | November 28, 2014 14:53 IST

  New Delhi: Refuting Opposition's contention, the government today said there had been no increase in the prices of essential drugs in the last six months.Prices of 44 drugs and 108 formulations have actually come down