Pointing out that high-cost medicines used to treat cancer, kidney ailments, and AIDS are being sold at prices up to “70 times higher” than the rates at which dealers and stockists procure them, Karnataka Health Minister U.T. Khader has written a letter to Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda, seeking national action against “abnormal gaps” in drug prices.

Pointing out that high-cost medicines used to treat cancer, kidney ailments, and AIDS are being sold at prices up to “70 times higher” than the rates at which dealers and stockists procure them, Karnataka Health Minister U.T. Khader has written a letter to Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda, seeking national action against “abnormal gaps” in drug prices.