Hindustan Times·Health

Supreme Court challenges government over medicine prices

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 28 October 2026, 01:16 UTC ·11 sec listen

India’s Supreme Court questioned the government about medicine overpricing, citing an anti-cancer drug a distributor offered to procure for 1,100 rupees that a private hospital charged 130,000 rupees for. The example highlighted a sharp gap in medicine costs.

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