Hospital Pharmacies to Display Purchase-Sale Prices From November 1
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Hospital pharmacies to display purchase-sale prices from November 1
The directive is part of a wider transparency drive by the Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration (UPFSDA), which has also asked retail and hospital pharmacies to make key information about their operations publicly accessible online.
Following the exposure of cases of profiteering and huge discrepancies between the purchase price of medicines and the selling price charged to patients in hospitals and retail drug markets in Uttar Pradesh, the state's Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) has taken strict and historic action. FSDA Commissioner and Senior […]
Pharmacies operating on hospital premises or for inpatients will now be required to provide complete information about each medication on their websites. This includes the manufacturer's name, brand name, and generic name, as well as the "price to retail," i.e., the price at which the pharmacy purchased the medication, and the "price to consumer," i.e., the price at which the medication was sold to the patient. Uttar Pradesh
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