Generic Medicine for Diabetes Patients: There is news of relief for diabetic patients troubled by expensive medicines. The government has now included cheaper and better medicine for them in the Janaushadhi scheme. Today we tell about that medicine in detail.
Diabetes Affordable Medicine Sitagliptin: There is relief news for 70 million patients with diabetes in the country. The diabetes drug sitagliptin has now been included in mass medicine. Although metformin, the most popular drug for diabetes, is already included in the list of generic drugs, sitagliptin is considered to be an even more effective drug. The specialty of this medicine is that it gives great benefit to patients with type 2 diabetes. This medicine does not lower blood sugar too much. Apart from this, this medicine does not cause any harm to the heart, whereas many other diabetes medicines have such dangers.
Medicine will be available at a very low cost 
This medicine, which is available in the market for two hundred and fifty rupees or more, has now become very cheap. A pack of 10 tablets will now be available at Jan Aushadhi Store for only ₹ 60. The MRP for a packet of ten tablets of sitagliptin phosphate 50 mg is Rs 60. At the same time, the packet of 100 mg tablets is 100 rupees. Ravi Dadhich, CEO of Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Pariyojana said that the prices of all types of this medicine are 60 to 70 percent less than the branded medicines. The price of branded medicines of the same medicine ranges from Rs 160 to Rs 258.
Currently 8700 Jan Aushadhi Stores in the country
Under the generic medicine, the combination of sitagliptin and metformin will also be available at Jan Aushadhi stores soon. There are currently 8700 Jan Aushadhi stores in India, where 1600 medicines are sold. Soon 138 more medicines can be included in this category and sold as generic medicines at cheaper prices. 138 new drugs have also been identified. They are expected to reach generic stores by the end of this year.
Private hospital owners do not pay attention
The Modi government may be busy taking forward the campaign to provide affordable-accessible medicines to the people of the country, but private hospital owners see this scheme as an injury to their profits. Most of the hospitals in the country have opened their medical stores on their campuses. Only expensive and branded medicines are available at these stores. Doctors are instructed by the hospital owners to write only expensive medicines on the prescription so that their profits increase continuously. Except for a few private hospitals, Jan Aushadhi Kendras have not been opened in any one.
