Price of Anti-Cancer Drugs Soar, Despite Price Cap
The All India Drug Action Network AIDAN released a statement saying that despite the government’s price cap on 42 cancer medicines, many Indians cannot afford most of the cancer medicines.They demande
AIDAN is the All India Drug Action Network. It is an NGO. AIDAN works to give people access to affordable medicines and teach them the rational way to use medicines. The organisation released a statement saying that despite the government’s price cap on 42 cancer medicines, many Indians cannot afford most of the cancer medicines. This is because the government does not control the prices charged by different Pharmaceutical companies.
For example, the statement said that a strip of 5 mg tablets of Axitinib, used to treat kidney cancer, cost ?41,737.A 50 ml bottle of Cetuximab, used to treat head, colon, rectum and neck cancer cost ?94,544.AIDAN statement says that different companies sell the same medicines at different prices. They want the government to provide a uniform price for important life saving medicines.
