We need an agency to monitor drug prices

The private hospitals in are focusing on providing healthcare to foreigners and the rich, while people are dying in the lakhs for lack of healthcare.

Thanks for publishing such a wonderful article on Dr Shetty. He is right in saying that private hospitals and the government itself do not want such a model to spread across India. The private hospitals in are focusing on providing healthcare to foreigners and the rich, while people are dying in the lakhs for lack of healthcare.

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I think we could even go a step further and control the cost of drugs to begin with, to dramatically augment healthcare across the country. We need a TRAI-like agency to keep a check on rising pharmaceutical rates.