{"id":469149,"date":"2026-03-11T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469149\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:48:07","slug":"foreigner-after-comparing-indian-medicine-prices-to-us-and-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469149\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigner After Comparing Indian Medicine Prices To US And Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Australian man has gone viral on social media after praising India’s ‘excellent’ and ‘reasonably-priced’ medicines that were lighter on the wallet than those in other countries. In a now-viral Instagram post titled, ‘India vs Abroad Medicine Prices’, Carl Andrew Harte went inside a local pharmacy in India and compared the prices of some of the common drugs whilst questioning how he was forking out extra money buying medicines in other countries.<\/p>\n

“There are quite a few advantages of living in India and I’d like to share one of them which is going to the local pharmacy, which is a little lighter on the wallet than it is in America and in Europe and Australia and several other places, dare I say?” said Harte in the video.<\/p>\n

“One of the good things about living in India is the excellent medications and very reasonably priced medicines. So I just thought, I’d go through a few which might be a little shocking for you, if you live in America and pay exceptionally high prices”<\/p>\n

Harte noted the low cost of medication, highlighting that a strip of amoxicillin was just Rs 123 ($1.34) and metformin (Glucophage) was only Rs 44 ($0.49).<\/p>\n

“I think you’d be shocked. I am shocked when I compare it to what you’d be paying in the US, for instance,” added Harte.<\/p>\n

Check The Viral Clip Here:<\/p>\n

Also Read | ‘When Nobody Helped, He Did’: Indian Army Soldier Comes To Woman’s Rescue At Railway Station<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Go To Jan Aushadhi’<\/p>\n

As the video gained traction, social media users highlighted that Harte should visit the Jan Aushadhi Kendras, the government-supported outlets that provide high-quality generic medicines at 50 to 90 per cent lower than branded equivalents.<\/p>\n

“Just think how much people in the US are getting robbed every day,” said one user, while another added: “A little lighter on the wallet than in the USA. Now, that’s an understatement.”<\/p>\n

A third commented: “That’s a private medical shop. If you go to Jan Aushadhi medical shop, the same drug will be half the price or one-fourth the price. And welcome to Incredible India.”<\/p>\n

A fourth said: “Absolutely. Unlike what some people think, these are real medicines, and they work. Hope big Pharma doesn’t manipulate India.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian man has gone viral on social media after praising India’s ‘excellent’ and ‘reasonably-priced’ medicines that were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[167939,102,167940,6591,56,54,55,5919],"class_list":["post-469149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-affordable-medicines","tag-health","tag-india-medicine-prices","tag-medication","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}