Government of India to provide essential medicines at a cheaper price to the needy
Posted on: 06/Aug/2015 10:50:57 AM
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Ananth Kumar said at an event on Wednesday that the Indian Government is mulling providing more than 50 essential drugs, including those used in treatment of cancer and AIDS, at cheaper rates to a large section of the population.
While speaking he said, There are about 100 crore people in the country who are either below poverty line, or in low income group or in middle income group. So there is need to ensure health security for such people. Therefore we would like to provide them drug security and for that we need to provide 50-55 such medicines which are used to cure cough, viral, flu, typhoid, diabetes, hypertension, HIV AIDS and cancer. These 50-55 medicines are very essential and we need a bracket of such 50-55 medicines which should be provided at cheaper rates and are of good quality. Therefore the government is looking into this and exploring this.
