Health Minister T Harish Rao on Thursday hit out at the Centre on Thursday for the 12% price hike of nearly 384 drugs and close to 1000 formulations of essential medicines that will go into effect on April 1.
The rise in the prices of essential medicines prescribed for common ailments such as fever, hypertension, skin ailments, infections, anaemia, and so on will have a significant impact and will further burden poor and middle-class families, he said.
“Troubling the middle class and poor families by raising prices in all sectors has become habit for BJP-led government at the Centre. The BJP has made a mockery of itself by raising prices of petrol, diesel and LPG whenever an opportunity presented. Now, as if not satisfied with incessant fuel and gas price hike, the Centre has decided to implement 12 per cent hike in life-saving drugs,” Harish Rao said.
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The Minister mocked slogans like Amrit Kal coined by BJP. “Such a move from the Centre is an act of taking away healthcare from the reach of poor and middle class families. The BJP government is working only to trouble the common man, they have already put a burden on the people by increasing prices of fuel and gas cylinders. Is this the Amrit Kal the BJP always talks about?” Harish Rao said.
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