Daybreak — Wake up, Neo. There’s a glitch in the pharma matrix

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Wake up, Neo. There’s a glitch in the pharma matrix

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The next time you pick up a strip of tablets at your neighbourhood pharmacy, consider this: the drug you just bought for Rs 170 may have left the factory for Rs 14. That's a markup of over a 1000%. And, it's completely legal. In this piece, The Ken's Mutasim Khan traces how India's drug pricing system works, and why…

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