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 тВ╣11.05 carrying a printed MRP of тВ╣325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at тВ╣6.75 carried an MRP of тВ╣57.20. A catheter procured at тВ╣29.41 carried an MRP of тВ╣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.
#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe
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Respected @Vishnu_Jain1 ji
The Jain community has not forgotten your assurance regarding the Girnar issue. We respectfully ask: Has the time not yet come to act?
Girnar's heritage cannot wait indefinitely. Thousands of devotees continue to look towards you with hope. We request you to honour your commitment and help bring this matter forward and spread communal harmony.
History remembers those who act when heritage calls.
#ProtectGirnarfromEncroachment
Message from Sonam :
20th JULY
рдЖрдЬрд╝рд╛рджреА рдХрд╛ рджреВрд╕рд░рд╛ рдЖрдиреНрджреЛрд▓рди
рднрдп рдореБрдХреНрдд рднрд╛рд░рдд, рдЕрдиреНрдпрд╛рдп рдореБрдХреНрдд рднрд╛рд░рдд
Freedom from injustice (Like paper leaks)
Freedom from Fear (my illegal detention)
IndiaтАЩs 2nd FREEDOM MOVEMENT
March to the Parliament
Please make it a big success
Sent through Gitanjali
from my illegal detention at Safdarjung
Around 20,000 (an estimate) Jains gathered on Girnar Hills today on the occasion of Bhagwan NeminathтАЩs Moksh Kalyanak.
All the sacred souls did Vandana of the great Siddh Kshetra.
Khoob Anumodna!
#JainRightToGirnar5thPeak#GirnarJi#Neminath
You can install new idolsтАж
But you canтАЩt erase the truth etched in stone
You can silence jaykarasтАж
But you canтАЩt remove the divine presence of Neminath Prabhu.
#JainRightToGirnar5thPeak