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In a concept note released on June 8, NITI Aayog said that the move is in line with the government plan to achieve the overall goal of affordable healthcare for all by making all critical and lifesaving medical devices available at affordable prices.

The medical devices that are already in this list are cardiac stents, syringes, needles, perfusion sets, HIV diagnostic kits, heart valves, orthopedic implants, blood component bags, etc.

Close to 90 health activists, patient groups and individuals workingtowards the elimination of tuberculosis have called upon Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to make drug resistant TB (DR-TB) drugs affordable byensuring supply of generic drugs

National drug pricing regulator NPPA has said medical devices makers and importers are being given the last opportunity to submit data regarding price movement of 19 medical devices notified as drugs by March 15, 2018.

National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has found that over 25 percent of the bill charged by four private hospitals in the National Capital Region of Delhi on some of their patients was on drugs that were out of price control.

US based drug makers lobby group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) has complained that the positive signals given by India

Apart from farmers and the gareeb nagrik, it is the older demographic that stands to gain the most from the latest Budget. To begin with, tax exemption of interest income from bank deposits has been raised to Rs 50,000 from the current Rs 10,000.

Narendra Modi government's ambitious National Health Policy 2017 may remain a promise if the budget allocation for health sector during the year is any indication.

In the past three years, there have been considerable efforts by the government towards building the health facilities infrastructure upto the HSC level.

\"This will be the world's largest government funded health care programme,\" Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his televised  address soon after Finance Minister's Budget speech.

 The just concluded year, hurt Indian pharma companies in more ways than one

The immediate provocation apparently was the action initiated by Haryana government against one of the hospitals of the leading private healthcare provider Fortis for allegedly failing to provide adequate treatment to a seven year old dengue patient.

Private hospitals, offering quality healthcare, are proliferating in Tier-II and Tier-III towns.