@Tukaram_IndIAS Sir with due respect I would like to volunteer in this drive to ensure fair pricing of essential medicines and services in interests of the patient's, how can I help ?
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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@Tukaram_IndIAS Who is also look ar artibratory pricing of services rendered besides the price of drugs , diagnosis, medical services and sales of otc drugs at pharmacy, shouldn't a price list for drugs which are of regular use put on the store or the hospital for all to see in public view ??
@dpradhanbjp@RahulGandhi@INCIndia Shame on you, indifference does not absolve you of the inhumanity towards students and their parents who toiled and hard worked all their life for their kids future , Shame shame shame 😡🤬
@HelloMTDC I need to contact the concerned person for cross promotion,subsidy in movies for a hindi feature Film to be shot in Panchgani and Mahableshwar. Please be kind enough to share the details or email me on [email protected]
@bankofbaroda please refrain from copy pasting same answers and check the complaint made since 5 days , if not I am happy to reshare it or you can refer to earlier conversations, don't play ignorant and take customer for a ride.
No airconditioner working and this is the empathy for customers your senior staff has??? If any senior citizen faints or falls unwell will they be attended and who is to be blamed ? PSU banks and their high handedness , Shame on You !!!! @RBI can u intervene.
A Bank of India employee, sitting there in a red shirt, openly says —
“We won’t do your work… do whatever you can.”
This incident is from the Madhubani branch in Bihar.
A young man went there to open a bank account.
He has been living in Madhubani for the past 5 years, although his permanent home is in Darbhanga.
As per rules, a landlord’s electricity bill from the place where you currently live can be used as valid address proof.
The boy had carried exactly that…
Yet, the bank staff refused straightaway —
👉 “Your account won’t be opened here. Go to Darbhanga.”
The next day, when he returned with another person, the response suddenly changed —
👉 “The account will be opened, but not after 2 PM. That’s the rule.”
Sensing something wrong, the young man immediately called customer care from there.
And the truth came out —
❌ There is no such rule about 2 PM.
When the customer care executive spoke to the bank employee, he blatantly lied —
👉 “He doesn’t have a local address proof.”
Even though the young man was standing there holding the electricity bill.
As soon as the call ended, the same arrogant tone returned —
👉 “Do whatever you want… we will not open your account.”
This is not just negligence — it’s outright misconduct and abuse of power.
Strict action must be taken against such employees. Otherwise, common people will continue to suffer, and trust in the system will keep eroding.
@bankofbaroda Your portal is a sham, after filling all the details in the last the request is timed out, i have emailed all concerned and raised my complaint on social media platform LinkedIn, 9000 people have seen and growing fast. better to revert on my email asap.