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UP Government mandates public websites for hospitals and pharmacies to expose actual medicine prices
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News18•05-10-2026, 23:45
UP Government mandates public websites for hospitals and pharmacies to expose actual medicine prices
- •The UP Food Safety and Drug Administration has taken strict steps to curb arbitrary profits charged from patients by private hospitals and pharmacies on medicines.
- •All retail pharmacies and in-patient medical stores in hospitals across Uttar Pradesh must now create a public website to display the purchase and selling prices of medicines.
- •Investigations revealed that hospitals bought medicines at extremely low prices with massive discounts but charged patients the full MRP or arbitrary rates.
- •Pharmacies are now required to display details like the manufacturer name, PTR purchase price, PTC selling price, pharmacist registration, and weekly stock updates.
- •Pharmacies must display a website URL and QR code at billing counters so patients can easily scan and view the actual pricing information on their smartphones.
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The UP Food Safety and Drug Administration has made it mandatory for all retail and in-patient hospital pharmacies to create a public website disclosing medicine purchase prices (PTR) and selling prices (PTC) to prevent arbitrary profiteering.
Pharmacies must display their name, drug license number, operator and appointed pharmacist details, registration number, photograph, and weekly updated medicine stock information along with a QR code at billing counters.
The department has cited Paragraph 25 of the Drug Price Control Order (DPCO)-2013 and the Supreme Court case of 'Sanjay Kulshreshtha vs. Union of India', which mandate vendors to display price lists at shops.
