Latest National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority News & Updates

New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has increased the retail price of anti-rabies immunoglobulin while fixing the retail prices of 39 drug formulations covering therapies for hypertension, diabetes, HIV, heart disease and eye infections, as part of its latest pricing exercise under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order (DPCO).According to a gazette notification issued after the authority’s 148th meeting, the retail price of anti-rabies immunoglobulin has bee…

New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has integrated Pharma Jan Samadhan and Pharma Sahi Daam into a single digital portal to give citizens unified access to medicine price information and grievance redressal, an official statement said on Thursday.It will help citizens to access both the services — medicine price information and grievance redressal services — seamlessly through the app and portal, the statement from Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers sa…

Bengaluru, March 31 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central Government over a fresh wave of price hikes set to take effect on April 1.Addressing a joint press conference at the KPCC headquarters in Bengaluru, AICC general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala and Karnataka deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar categorized the new fiscal year as a “day of loot, rob, and fleece” for the hardworking citizens of the country.Surjewala said, “Com…