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Same Medicine At Different Price In Different Shops, Who Can Be Held Responsible For This?By Shashank, Section Civic Problems in Kolkata
My wife has been advised by an orthopaedic surgeon to take Risofos (Risedronate Sodium tablets 35 mg), a product of Cipla Ltd, to be taken once a week for a couple of months since she has osteoporosis. On 22 February, I bought two strips of Risofos ~ each containing four tablets ~ from Ramkanai Medical Stores, a famous medical shop at Shyambazar. Retail price of each strip of tablets as imprinted on the crimp was Rs 214.54. The shop keeper charged Rs 425 for two strips. But later, on 16 April, when I purchased the same medicine from a different medical shop in Shyambazar (Frank Ross Pharmacy), I got the strip of Risofos for Rs 110. The date of manufacture and the date of expiry for all three strips were identical, June 2007 and May 2009 respectively. Only the batch number differed. The strip that I bought earlier had a batch number DH7263, while the one that I bought later was of batch number DH7278.
Now, my question is, how can the price of a medicine, manufactured and marketed by the same company, having the same potency and quantity, having the same dates of manufacture and dates of expiry, have such a disparity? Considering these two medical shops of Shyambazar enjoy an unimpeachable reputation, who can be held responsible for this?
Pachu Ray Source: The Statesman 02/June/2008
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