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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looking for a 1bh/2bhk in a gated society in Harlur/Kasavanhalli/near Sarjapur road.
Requirements: Car Parking, Balcony, Higher floor(preferable)
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#WATCH | Ranchi, Jharkhand | A class 12th student, Sarthak Sidhant, says, “…I have written a blog that compares the tender documents of CBSE. I have uploaded and published it… There were at least 15 discrepancies, as per my blog. I would like to highlight three or four of them. Let me give a background about Coempt. It was known as Globarena, and they have a very shady background. 23 students killed themselves because of coempt… Now, I would like to tell you about RFP (Request for Proposal). What happens is the government issues a tender and asks the bidder to bid for it. CBSE issued this tender three times… I have compared the old RFP and the new RFP, and I found some discrepancies… The first discrepancy is that there were three clauses of poor performances which was completely wiped out from the new RFP. In the earlier RFP, there was a clause called blacklisted earlier, whereas in the new RFP, it was changed to blacklisted currently. Why would the board want a service provider which was blacklisted earlier? The third thing I found out is the 50 crore limit, which you needed to qualify, and coempt qualified that by 1.7% … The time frame of corrupt practices was halved, and there were project criteria changes… It shows a pattern that the industry giant TCS was not preferred, but coempt was preferred, which works as a very fragmented group of institutions…”
An IPS officer stood alone at Dilsukhnagar bus stop past midnight to understand what women face on Hyderabad streets after dark.
What followed EXPOSED the reality of many MEN today.
From “Will you come?” to vulgar offers and repeated harassment, nearly 40 men approached her between 12.30 AM and 3.30 AM - many drunk, some allegedly under ganja influence. They were students or employees while the officer is in her 50s.
The officer was Malkajgiri CP IPS Sumathi.
But she didn’t stop at catching them.
Those men were identified, counselled and warned about their behaviour towards women.
This wasn’t her first such field exercise. Around 25 years ago, as a young DSP near Kazipet railway station, she had conducted a similar operation to understand women’s safety at ground level.
Even after reaching top ranks, she still chose field reality over office comfort.
While dedication towards policing deserves appreciation, the reality is uncomfortable - for many women, being alone after dark is not safe enough.
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Can I order forex on behalf of someone else without them being physically present at the address, and still provide all the required details if asked?
DNS works on udp for speed but still stays reliable.
resolvers send queries and wait for answers with set timeouts. if nothing comes back they just send the same query again.
domains have multiple name servers listed so if one does not reply the resolver tries the next one.
answers get stored in cache for some time so repeated lookups do not need fresh queries every time.
when the response data is too big for udp the server sets a truncate flag and the resolver switches to tcp on the same port to get the full data.
these steps together make the whole system work without depending only on udp delivery.
@InvestorOfJAMMU Prices will likely be borne by those buying in the black market. Ystd, I casually called a vendor and asked for the price - he quoted 3200
@TheOfficialSBI
Amazing service by State Bank of India 👏
My mother’s pension hasn’t been credited for 2 months, but the branch’s solution is to make her fill forms again and again with zero clarity. Is this how you treat your staff?
@UC_Assist
I’m interested in purchasing the Water Purifier Native M1. Could you please confirm whether it is deliverable and serviceable at pincode 492013?
I am 70 years old.
I still get nightmares about showing up late for class or not being able to find my classroom or not being prepared for my class presentation. When does this stop?
@voxya_ They do business via ekart, try contacting them via shipment id and ask them to cancel and refund (m not sure if this will work….ps: got scammed today 🫣)