Govt has fixed ceiling prices of 849 medicine

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New Delhi : Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Chemicals & Fertilizers, Mansukh L Mandaviya, in a written reply to a question on status of capping of prices of essential medicines in Rajya Sabha on December 15, 2017, informed that till November 2017, the Government has fixed the ceiling prices of 849 medicine including 2 coronary stents under Revised Schedule I based on National List of Essential Medicines, 2015 (NLEM 2015).

National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) fixes the ceiling prices of medicine listed in the of Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013 (DPCO 2013), according o a PIB release.