The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.
A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.
A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.
These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.
The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.
A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.
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Bhai Chandra sahab ke ₹22,000 crores maaf nahi karte to India mein UPI agle 20 saal tak free chal jaata by government’s number of ₹8,000 crores subsidy.
Also NPCI - which runs UPI has ₹6,119 hard cash on its balance sheet and pre tax operating profit of ₹1,900 crores. NPCI apne cash pe and profits par zindagi bhar UPI free chala sakti hai. Government ka kuchh lena dena hi nahi hai. Government earned ₹1,000 crores tax from NPCI last year.
I lost my account with over 440,000 followers. And, X hasn't been helpful so far.
My account @Akshat_World has been hacked.
My team has tried to coordinate with X support. But, it just keeps hitting a bot. We are clueless at this point how to approach this further.
It had taken me several years to build this account.
Not sure if I will ever get it back.
Just hoping that good folks would help me escalate this. @elonmusk@nikitabier
Thank you :)
At @teriin WSDS 2026, Shell launched its India‑focused Scenarios Sketch: “India’s energy transition in a security‑focused age.”
The Sketch explores how India can meet rising energy demand while ensuring security, affordability, reliability & decarbonisation across three futures shaped by geopolitics, AI‑led digitalisation & climate priorities.
More details: https://t.co/pJdl81JlgJ
#ShellIndia #ShellScenarios #WSDS2026
Today, I delivered a speech on the Union Budget 2026-27 titled the good, the bad, and the way forward.
Speeches on Union Budget are either applause from the Treasury benches or outrage from the Opposition. Today, I tried to take an objective view and offer constructive criticism to the Hon’ble Finance Minister.
From STT in markets and relief to middle-class to the public health funding gap, income tax slab rate revision, state capex, fixing land records via blockchain, making long-term capital gain tax on equities zero, legalising virtual digital assets like crypto, and much more. I laid it out clearly in Parliament.
Watch the full speech here.
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A man filed a complaint about potholes at 11 AM in Dubai.
By 4 PM, the road was fully repaired along with lane markings, and quality was such that it didn't look like it had been repaired.
This process is atleast 100 years ahead of India.
> Running in 500+ AQI
> Eating fake paneer
> Getting fake medicines when sick
> Walking in sewage water each monsoon
> Paying full price for ethanol-blended fuel
What a tragic collapse we’re living through !
BREAKING: Explosion near Red Fort area in Old Delhi. Explosion near metro station.
Blasts on a day when there has been a major crackdown on terror modules plotting a strike on Delhi.
Details awaited.
#BREAKING: Blast in a car reported near Red Fort in New Delhi. Several cars caught in the blast, many people reportedly injured. Delhi Police, Delhi Fire Brigade and Delhi Police Special Cell on the spot. More details are awaited.