Dr.ShrutiBennur

CEO & Co-Founder - Pancha Elements Pvt Ltd ,Ayurvedic Gynecologist, Wellness strategist

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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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Warm wishes to Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji. 🙏
May you always be blessed with good health, inner strength, peace and renewed energy. As someone who deeply values the connection between health, resilience and purposeful living.

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Take a moment to Prioritize on this day to practice that nurture your mind, body and soul. INTERNATIONAL MIND-BODY WELLNESS DAY- Cultivating Holistic Well-Being https://t.co/A12s4MzWWr

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This blog post shares a personal story of how Ayurvedic treatment helped a patient overcome this condition and improve her quality of life. https://t.co/ePzvekDojm

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Role of Sleep in Delaying Early Onset of Puberty https://t.co/F4UIoCIJye

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HOW ONE CAN DELAY PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY ? https://t.co/T0AivA2W8g

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Think before you swallow a Pill https://t.co/lK7ovbSQ5z

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If you are planning for pregnancy, make sure not to consume these medications..
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📷 Happy Holi to all… #holiday #colourfulday #colour#colourforlife https://t.co/fjmbAWUkxw https://t.co/eV9eTGWCRh

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📷 Happy women’s day to all… Let’s celebrate within us #womensday #genderequality #internationalwomensday https://t.co/sYaHUpZrXK https://t.co/OFRGqCh4is

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Happy women’s day to all…
Let’s celebrate within us
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