{"id":57938,"date":"2019-03-13T06:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57938"},"modified":"2019-03-13T06:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:37:57","slug":"millions-in-india-to-benefit-from-major-price-cuts-offered-by-government-on-anti-cancer-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/03\/13\/millions-in-india-to-benefit-from-major-price-cuts-offered-by-government-on-anti-cancer-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions in India to benefit from major price cuts offered by government on anti-cancer drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Indian National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) recently announced major price cuts (some of them as much as 87%) on 390 different anti-cancer treatment brands, which means that these lifesaving cancer medicines will be available to over 2 million cancer patients in the country at much cheaper rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The price cuts are expected to collectively save roughly 8 billion INR ($115 million) in medical bills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The list of price cuts brings 42 new unscheduled anti-cancer drugs that were previously unaffected by government regulation under a price cap that will offer financial relief to cancer patients across the nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The government-regulated price cap is maintained as a means of preventing pharmaceutical companies and wholesalers from profiting off of essential anti-cancer treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/prices-of-390-cancer-drugs-slashed-by-up-to-87-percent-in-india\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/prices-of-390-cancer-drugs-slashed-by-up-to-87-percent-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/prices-of-390-cancer-drugs-slashed-by-up-to-87-percent-in-india\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) recently announced major price cuts (some of them as much as 87%) on 390 different anti-cancer treatment brands, which means that these lifesaving cancer medicines will be available to over 2 million cancer patients in the country at much cheaper rates. The price cuts are expected to collectively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}