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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India mein koi 5 minutes number Google kar le to doodh ka doodh paani ka paani ho jaye.
RBI surplus to Govt : ₹2.87 Lakh Crores (US$30 Bn)
Total listed bank profits : ₹4.11 Lakh Crores (US$42 Bn)
NPCI - which runs UPI pre tax ‘surplus’ : ₹ 1,888 crores (US$200 Mn)
To nuksaan kis ka ho raha hai UPI se aur kaunsi subsidy de rahi hai Govt UPI pe jo chubh rahi hai?
Cost of running ATMs and cash logistics in India is ₹30,500 crores (US$ 3.0 Bn). If you want to optimise shut ATMs and promote UPI instead.
Any levy on UPI is just tax collection. UPI is the one scientific achievement of India everyone acknowledges par ab tax ki bali chadhegi.
> Kiren Rijiju is the minister of minority affairs—govt of india.
> Few days ago he quoted an AI video clip from anon handle which appear to be bad.
> But yesterday his govt bulldozed a century old mosque but he didn't wrote a word on it.
His Muslims friends not hurt by this?
Hello @DelhiPolice@DCP_IFSO.
Here are a few posts by Swatantra Bharadwaj using AI generated images to sexualize Muslim women.
Will you take cognizance of these provocative posts targeting Muslim Women?
Mr Anurag Kumar @CPDelhi@DelhiPolice ,
Informing an individual's family during interrogation or detention is a legal mandate, not an optional courtesy.
Yesterday, I was taken for interrogation after my morning walk under the assurance that it would take very little time. However, as the hours stretched on, my repeated requests to inform my wife of my whereabouts ,the concerned Police Officials/Officer simply stated they were "following instructions."
I was only permitted to make a call at 6:38 PM, leaving my family & friends in total panic the entire day.
I request that you issue clear instructions to all units directing officers to strictly uphold the legal duty of immediately informing the family of any person taken for interrogation , so that no citizen’s family has to endure the distress that mine suffered.
@umashankarsingh 2025 chunav me PK ko log pasand kar rahe the par vishwas nahi kar pa rahe the k woh ketni mehnat kar sakte hain Rajneeti mein.Chunav haar jane k baad bhi woh active poltics me lage rahe.Usi ka yeh phal hai jo Rulling party and opposition party dono k naraz voter ne unhe vote kiya
Last week we met @DCPNewDelhi Sachin Sharma and gave him a complaint against “Satyam Pandit”. We requested a photograph but DCP Sachin denied it, saying he doesn’t allow photos at the office.
Our MLA @KuldeepKumarAAP told him he wouldn’t hesitate if BJP leaders clicked a photo while meeting him. But he projected a very “उसूलों वाली” body language.
And here is yesterday’s photo of the same DCP. How do we trust a machinery that is so politically biased?
How do we expect the same DCP to file an FIR against the right-wing gunda who was recorded on camera physically assaulting innocent minors who participated in the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar?
DCP Sachin Sharma or @CPDelhi can deny it if I am lying.
This tweet, where I was asking for the video proof from BJP spokesperson, and he had gone completely clueless, has now been deleted by @news24tvchannel.
@manakgupta any explanation?
This mf doxxed her.
He literally put a minor’s life at risk.
He intentionally put her wrong age so that an FIR can be registered under sections for an adult.
He leaked all her details.
Hello @DelhiPolice arrest this guy for leaking her details and putting her life at risk.
JJ Rules के अंतर्गत petty और serious offence के लिए किसी child के विरुद्ध FIR पंजीकृत नहीं की जा सकती, FIR केवल heinous offences के लिए register की जा सकती है.
गाली देना यद्यपि गलत है, परंतु heinous offence नहीं. ऐसे में यदि लड़की 15 वर्ष की है तो FIR कैसे पंजीकृत हो सकती है?
Just asking!
The misuse of criminal machinery against Ruchika Singh is unacceptable. Profanity does not attract criminal case. 50% of Lok Sabha MPs have criminal cases against them, close to 100 MPs in the BJP. The Police can focus their energy towards them, not a 25-year old! Harassment of the young must STOP immediately!
No! He was not just doing his job! We need to name, shame & ensure social boycotts for each of these brutes & take them to court. First is Sandeep Lamba . Mark him out, where he lives, what his record is. Can legal teams please start paperwork . Thks
नासिर-जुनैद को ज़िंदा जलाकर मारने वाले आरोपी के साथ ख़ुशगवार माहौल में फोटो खिंचवाने वाले फरीदाबाद पुलिस के ज्वाइंट कमिश्नर राजेश दुग्गल साहब से पूछना है कि आप इस तरह से पुलिस का इक़बाल बुलंद कर रहे हैं ?
मुख्यमंत्री @NayabSainiBJP जी क्या एैसे चलेगी प्रदेश की क़ानून व्यवस्था ?
@FBDPolice@police_haryana