CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has also fixed the retail price of 12 scheduled formulations under Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013 (NLEM 2022).

Detailed explanation-2: -No. The National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) 2011 is adopted as the primary basis for determining essentiality, which constitutes the list of scheduled medicines for the purpose of price control. The DPCO 2013 contains 680 scheduled drug formulations spread across 27 therapeutic groups.

Detailed explanation-3: -but the kind of dpco regime that we have today, in which the government fixes prices of some drugs, was put in place in 1979. at that time, over 350 bulk drugs were subject to price controls. now, only 74 bulk drugs (12 of them imported) and their formulations are covered by the dpco.

Detailed explanation-4: -NEW DELHI : The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed the ceiling price of 93 essential formulations including pain killers and drugs used to treat cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, bacterial infections, pneumonia, tuberculosis, thyroid, epilepsy, and urinary tract infections.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was introduced in May 2013 and had affected the pricing of over 300 essential medicines based on their manufacturing cost.