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JSA, Working Group on Access to Medicines and Treatment call for ceilings on hospital charges and trade margins; they say absence of a uniform mechanism to regulate hospital charges had left patients vulnerable to hefty bills
Ensure prominent display of healthcare service rates at clinical establishments: Centre to states
Government proposes 30% trade-margin cap on patented and non-patented cancer medicines, but top court asks why a margin cap cannot be extended to all medicines and medical products; the court says the government has to ensure that DPCO-approved medicines, whose price is legally regulated, reach patients