Through separate notifications, the drug price regulator has notified ceiling prices of 36 medicines. Moreover, it has revised the ceiling prices of 15 medicines. Ceiling prices of drugs, including anaesthetic sevoflurane, Phytomenadione (Vitamin K1) and tuberculosis prevention medicine BCG vaccine have been revised. NPPA fixes ceiling price of essential medicines that are listed in Schedule I of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order (DPCO), 2013. NPPA fixes/revises prices of pharma products, enforces of provisions of DPCO and monitors of prices of controlled and decontrolled drugs.

Source: Indian Express November 24, 2017 21:31 UTC