151 essential medicines to become cheaper from today

Thiruvananthapuram: 29th July 2013

From Monday the most essential drugs will go cheaper by10 to 50% as the revised prices fixed by the national pharmaceutical pricing authority comes into force. In the first phase the prices of 151 formulations will come down and the remaining 91 formulations will become cheaper from next month.     Cancer drugs, antibiotics, drugs for cardiovascular diseases and tuberculosis are a few among the 151 essential formulations that will go cheaper from July 29. 

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