{"id":357,"date":"2025-09-07T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/357\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:01:08","slug":"government-fixes-retail-price-of-42-common-drug-formulations-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/357\/","title":{"rendered":"Government fixes retail price of 42 common drug formulations | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/representative-image.jpg\" alt=\"Government fixes retail price of 42 common drug formulations\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: The government has fixed the retail price of 42 common drug formulations, including broad-spectrum antibiotic Meropenem &amp; Sulbactam injection by Zydus Healthcare and Mycophenolate Mofetil tablets by Ipca Laboratories, used to prevent organ rejection in transplant cases.The retail price of Meropenem &amp; Sulbactam injection is Rs 1,938.59 per vial, and Mycophenolate Mofetil is Rs 131.58 per tablet. Clarithromycin Extended-Release tablets by Abbott Healthcare, used to treat bacterial infections, are priced at Rs 71.71 per tablet.In Feb, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, which controls drug prices, ordered manufacturers to issue a price list to dealers, state drug controllers, and the govt, referencing such price fixation or revision as per government orders or gazette notifications.&#8221;The order to display the price list allows citizens to cross-check whether pharmacies are selling at NPPA-fixed prices,&#8221; said an official.&#8221;Every retailer and dealer shall display the price list and supplementary price list, if any, in a conspicuous place, easily accessible to the public,&#8221; the NPPA order stated. The directive also covers online\/virtual retail premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: The government has fixed the retail price of 42 common drug formulations, including broad-spectrum antibiotic Meropenem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[220,624,619,163,85,207,616,617,46,482,620,621,623,622,618],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-breaking-news","tag-drug-price-regulation","tag-google-news","tag-health","tag-il","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-israel","tag-medication","tag-meropenem-sulbactam-injection","tag-mycophenolate-mofetil-tablets","tag-national-pharmaceutical-pricing-authority","tag-retail-price","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}