From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Gopal Dabade</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drdabade@gmail.com">drdabade@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282718/dont-alter-drug-price-sc.html" target="_blank">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282718/dont-alter-drug-price-sc.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:19.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Don’t
alter drug price, SC tells Central Government<br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Deccan Herald, New
Delhi, Oct 3, 2012, DHNS:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636">Court raps govt for
causing undue suffering to common man</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636">The Supreme Court on Wednesday
asked the Central Government not to alter the pricing structure of drugs while
placing as many as 348 drugs on the National List of Essential Medicine (NLEM).</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#363636">A bench of Justices also expressed their displeasure over the delay by the
government in this regard.</span><br>
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“We are certainly
concerned. Nine years have passed since the petition was filed. It is engaging
the attention (of the government) only when we said that an order will be
passed. Court cannot run the government. But at times, we are forced to step
in,” the bench said.<br>
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The bench, however,
asked him to read the order passed on September 11 where it was stated that the
court would itself pass the direction if no decision was taken.<br><br>
The court also
asked, so far “Five expert groups have been constituted on the subject. How
long people should go on like this”<br>
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