{"id":14386,"date":"2016-08-06T09:52:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T09:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=14386"},"modified":"2016-08-06T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T09:52:43","slug":"essential-drugs-get-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/essential-drugs-get-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential drugs get cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed\/revised ceiling prices of how many essential drugs including drugs used for treatment of cancer and HIV?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 30<br \/>\n(b) 35<br \/>\n(c) 24<br \/>\n(d) 40<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 29 July 2016 National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed\/revised ceiling prices of 24 essential drugs including drugs used for treatment of cancer and HIV by reducing the cost by an average of around 25 per cent.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has also capped the retail price of 31 formulations under Drugs (Price Control) Amendment Order (DPCO), 2013.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In some cases the reduction is 10 to 15 per cent while for others it is up to 30 to 35 per cent.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government fixes the prices of essential drugs based on the simple average of all medicines in a particular therapeutic segment, having sales of more than 1 per cent.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">NPPA controls the maximum retail price of drugs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/nppa-cuts-drug-prices-of-cancer-hiv-cardiac-by-25\/article8928508.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/nppa-cuts-drug-prices-of-cancer-hiv-cardiac-by-25\/article8928508.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nppaindia.nic.in\/ceiling\/press29july16\/so2568e-29-7-16.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nppaindia.nic.in\/ceiling\/press29july16\/so2568e-29-7-16.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.in\/essential-drugs-get-cheaper-govt-fixes-price-ceiling-530-medicines-669450#dtprfmEk0w54ffBZ.97\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.in\/essential-drugs-get-cheaper-govt-fixes-price-ceiling-530-medicines-669450#dtprfmEk0w54ffBZ.97<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Prices-of-essential-drugs-to-be-cut-by-3-from-April\/articleshow\/51063608.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Prices-of-essential-drugs-to-be-cut-by-3-from-April\/articleshow\/51063608.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed\/revised ceiling prices of how many essential drugs including drugs used for treatment of cancer and HIV? (a) 30 (b) 35 (c) 24 (d) 40 Ans: (c) Related facts: On 29 July 2016 National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed\/revised ceiling prices of 24 essential drugs including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-14386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}