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‘Don’t treat people’s lives as commerce’: SC pulls up Centre and hospitals over medicine mark-ups

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The court reserved its order in a PIL seeking drug pricing reforms, criticising the Centre and NPPA for delayed action while questioning massive gaps between procurement costs and MRPs.

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