{"id":783,"date":"2025-09-07T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/783\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:37:09","slug":"council-slashes-gst-on-key-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/783\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Slashes GST On Key Medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Patients Gain<\/p>\n<p>For families struggling with treatment bills, this comes across as a huge relief. Previously, a drug with a base price of Rs 1 lakh would cost Rs 1.12 lakh after addition of GST. Now, the same drug would be available for Rs 1 lakh after the exemption. For a patient on repeated cycles of such medicines, the savings can be a lot. Even routine prescriptions, which will now attract only five per cent GST, will mean more saving for the buyer or patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Patients Gain For families struggling with treatment bills, this comes across as a huge relief. Previously, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1316,165,1309,1313,1310,497,1303,1300,163,521,1307,85,46,1311,482,1301,1315,1306,1314,1312,1302,1305,1304,1308],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-affordability","tag-cancer","tag-chemotherapy","tag-compliance","tag-devices","tag-drugs","tag-exemption","tag-gst","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hospitals","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kits","tag-medication","tag-medicines","tag-mrp","tag-patients","tag-pricing","tag-procurement","tag-rarediseases","tag-relief","tag-taxcut","tag-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}