Price of life-saving drugs skyrocketing: Report


Wednesday, November 09, 2011: According to a recent survey conducted here the prices of the essential life saving medicines have sky-rocketed in Kerala.
Report suggests that prices of the medicines used for diseases such as blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol have virtually doubled making it almost impossible for the common man to buy such medicines.
The poor and the downtrodden especially are finding it difficult to buy such medicines, when they deserve to get it free if not at a subsidised rate. It is alleged that prices have been hiked in order to sabotage the state government’s attempt to provide life-saving drugs at reasonable prices.
The state government had recently announced a tax exemption to life saving drugs.

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