Re: [india-drug] Drug pricing: Centre gives ultimatum to cos. (6)

["YK Gupta" <yk.ykgupta@gmail.com>]

Drug pricing: Centre gives ultimatum to cos. (6)
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Dear Dr. Anita,

This is an important issue .

I congratulate you for taking up this .
Can you think of organizing a brain storming under IPS  some time .

Warm regards
Y.K. Gupta
Dr.Y.K.Gupta,M.D.,
Professor and Head
Department of Pharmacology
& President,Indian Pharmacological society,
Editor Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology( Pharmacology)
All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
New Delhi-110029, India
yk.ykgupta@gmail.com
ykg@hotmail.com


On 11/16/06, anita kotwani <anitakotwani@msn.com> wrote:
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> Drug pricing: Centre gives ultimatum to cos. (4)
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> Dear All,
>
> One  of  the  important policy option to decrease pricing in the 'free
>   market'  is  imposing  transparency  in  the  system  and  empowering
>   consumer.
>
>   At present we do not have much transparency in price of medicine that
>   is at  what  price company give a particular medicine to wholesalers,
>   what is   the  price  for  retailers.  If the prices are regularly
>   published/website  for all the medicines, it will automatically keep a
>   check and better competition in the market for the consumer.
>
>   If consumer has the knowledge of different prices of same therapeutic
>   chemical moiety  manufactured  by different pharmaceutical companies,
>   consumer  would  be  more  knowledgeable  and  can  choose  or  ask the
>   prescriber to  prescribe  the  medicine of a particular company whose
>   price  is sometimes much less from a different company. This is many a
>   times  50-100%  difference in price of a same medicine from two 'good'
>   manufacturing companies.
>
> We can discuss these points in detail that how to move ahead in this
> direction.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>   Anita Kotwani
> V.P.chest Institute
> University of Delhi
> anitakotwani@msn.com
>