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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Shazia ji: “This pic says all!”
It really does.
First someone please tell Lula that he attended BRICS.
Then inform Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May 2024, that he apparently made it too.
Waise delete kyu kiya @shaziailmi ?
I did my P.hd in “Brahmin Status and the Politics of Social Recognition: Caste, Ritual Authority and Competing Claims to Brahminhood in Colonial India”
And there is no historical evidences that Bumihar Brahmins have done even 1% of what this chap is claiming in this video.
@blinkitcares i placed an order paid the full amount but the page kept asking to pay, after 4 1/2 minutes the page expired, i placed the order on CoD , the CoD order arrived and than the paid order also arrived, pls have one packet collected and make refund, thanks
This is torture on live TV
If @Subhashgarg1960 had thrown any more facts at her - this @ndtv intern-anchor would have burst out in tears.
Imagine, trying to counter the former Finance Secretary, by lecturing him on the 'sanctity' of Govt numbers🤦🏻♂️
I explain analytical base of my conclusion that GDP growth in Q1 in 2026-27 in current price is 2.6% and in real terms close to 0. There are still messier distortions in sectoral performance with manufacturing and consumption witnessing negative growth. https://t.co/pvsjXlAdcq
@HardeepSPuri the lines at the CNG station are becoming long and causing heavy traffic jams around them, can we work out compressed gas in compact cylinders, the pump will just replace the cylinder, the drivers can also stock spares ??
रविशंकर भारती चाहते तो अपनी बेटी को दुर्गा वाहिनी या संस्कार भारती जैसी महान संस्था में भेज सकते थे।
VHP के मुस्लिम विरोधी अभियान,चर्च जलाने जैसे कार्यों में लगा सकते थे।
पर उन्होंने अपनी बेटी को पढ़ने के लिए बॉस्टन यूनिवर्सिटी भेज कर जो त्याग किया है, उसके लिये रविशंकर को युगों -युगों तक याद रखा जायेगा ।
Do you remember Journalist Piyush Mishra who was called out as BJP person by Rahul Gandhi few days back?
Few days back he said that BJP will win #Bankipur because Nitin Nabin has put 100% efforts and he is very popular 🤣🤣
Today –– BJP lost it against #PrashantKishor by 15000 votes
Can you imagine credibility of such journalists?