#Business | IV sets bought for Rs 11.05, billed at Rs 325: Tukaram Mundhe seeks review as device markups hit 2,841%
- Maharashtra FDA found high hospital markups.
- Consumables marked up to 2,841%.
- Commissioner seeks central review of pricing.
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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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In a daring rescue mission at 18,600 ft near Nun Kun, Indian Army Aviation pilots evacuated a casualty from an extremely challenging slope with no landing space and strong winds.
With the helicopter lightened by removing non-essential equipment and carrying limited fuel, the aviators executed the evacuation with exceptional precision, courage and determination, including a critical landing with one skid touching the slope.
The mission, undertaken at the last available landing window of the day, stands as a testament to the skill, courage and compassion of Indian Army Aviation.
(Source: Fire and Fury Corps, Indian Army)
यूपी की फैक्ट्रियों में गेहूं के साथ पत्थर की पिसाई: फैक्ट्री का ऑपरेटर बोला- 'मालिक ज्यादा मुनाफे के लिए आटे में सफेद पत्थर का चूरा मिलाते हैं', आटा देशभर में ब्रांडेड कंपनियों के नाम पर बिक रहा; रिपोर्टर ने मजदूर बनकर आटे की फैक्ट्री में 25 दिन गुजारे, जानें कैसे एक्सपोज हुआ यह खेल
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