Summary:
Launched in 2015, the government promises to give more than 500 formulations, including costly cancer drugs, free of cost. The cancer patients visiting the hospital are prescribed medicines available in the hospital supply. They are asked to bring it from counters of Niramaya, a flagship scheme of the government providing free medicines to patients. But he could not explain why all the medicines were marked not-for-sale.Health secretary Pramod Meherda (who is also the ex-officio executive chairman of the hospital's governing body) said a two-member inquiry committee was formed to probe into why medicines marked not-for-sale were being sold. The hospital asks patients to pay half the market price for costly chemotherapy drugs..