Jan aushadi medical stores l, fraction of a cost?

I have been using medicines from Jana Aushadhi for quite some time now and those medicines are working fine. The majority of those medicines are manufactured by our branded medicines manufacturers with different names instead of using their branded names. Since jana aushadhi products are kept out of wild marketing by meeting individual doctors and gifting them costly items for prescribing their branded drugs, the prices of these medicines are generally 20% to 30% of those of the branded ones. Interestingly, there are certain manufacturers whose products prescribed by doctors are available only either in their own medical stores or in the stores maintained by their respective hospitals (probably against heavy bribes) to create an artificial image for such medicines in the minds of the patients/their family members. I would advocate among our fellow members to prefer Jana Aushadhi in lieu of branded medicines which are qualitatively equal to the branded ones and are much cheaper. more  

I do agree with Dr. Ramanathan that product prices are fixed arbitrarily by manufacturers and government has not control (or do not with to control) the prices. Therefore, manufacturer fixes price of his product as he wishes and moreover there are associations of different product manufacturers who give a mandate of the minimum baseline price for a particular product. This is a big fraud wherein ordinary customers are cheated and looted. more  

Someone said Governments dont control then what use of central governments at all if consumer / customer / citizens/ voters interest ignored? Layman is not a born doctor? Good doctors existed 3 decades ago itself only? more  

Thanks for raising this important issue Sri Padmanabhan. I would like to respond to this post based on my experience both as a physician and as a patient. I have been using the products of Jan Aushadi (JA) from 2diabetes, 017. When I first started using I was scared as I was buying for diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol and heart related issues. So, I monitored several parameters like blood pressure, lipid profile, blood glucose etc for more than three months and convinced myself as to the effectiveness of the drugs purchased from JA. From that time in 2017, we have been buying most of the drugs from there. Many of the drugs are from regular companies and not generic from unknown companies. Yes, they are so much cheaper than purchasing from other shops. The reason is fairly simple. It is called MRP or maximum retail price. While other comapines make a big show of giving 20-25% reduction if you buy for over Rs 1000 or so, here, drugs are given by selling for just above the cost price which includes transport and payment of staff (I understand that many are from self-help groups). So the price is a fraction of the MRP. I am not surprised as the MRP appears to be arbitrarily fixed by manufacturers and not controlled by the Government. You can see this clearly when you buy from hardware shops. The price on the cover will be X and the selling price will be much lower than that. So please do buy from JA but convince yourself by checking the parameters after a few weeks' usage. Unfortunately, some of the drugs prescribed by practising physicians nowadays are not available as many of them are combination drugs - I suggest that you ask your doctor for individual drugs. Do not get swayed by what the pharmacists and some doctors say about the ineffectiveness of JA drugs. Sorry for this lohg response. Though I am loathe to do it, I am giving my name with my degrees to show that I am not saying anything blindly. - V D Ramanathan MBBS, PhD (London). Retired Scintist G (Indian Council of Medical Research). more  

Thanks Doc . I have been able to locate one near our place  Yahoo Mail: Search, organise, conquer On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 at 9:52, Padmanabhan G wrote: more