AMRIT Pharmacies to increase by four times
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New Delhi, January 25: In an order to reduce the cost of treating the two health issues, cancer and heart diseases, that are on the rise in India the Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment (AMRIT) Retail Pharmacy scheme is launched. Now this AMRIT pharmacy will be increased four times giving relief to many.
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J.P. Nadda launched the first AMRIT Retail Pharmacy at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi to sell drugs for cancer and cardiovascular diseases at highly discounted rates.
The medicine buyers till now have saved over Rs 267 crore by buying drugs from AMRIT (Affordable medicine and reliable implants for treatment) stores, which have benefited over 52 lakh patients, Nadda told. The total maximum retail price of the medicines sold off these stores was 486 crore but their sale price was Rs 219 crore, saving Rs 267 crore of buyers.
The medicines cost anywhere between 60 to 90 per cent less than the market price, he said."We are working very fast on opening more stores. We want one store in every district," he said. Asked what the target the government was looking at was, he said they expected to increase its numbers by four times by the end of this year."The Centre depends on states to provide it land to open these stores," Nadda said.