{"id":57589,"date":"2023-08-16T14:15:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T05:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/16\/indian-doctors-rebel-over-diktat-to-prescribe-cheaper-drugs"},"modified":"2023-08-16T14:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T05:15:38","slug":"indian-doctors-rebel-over-diktat-to-prescribe-cheaper-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57589","title":{"rendered":"Indian doctors rebel over diktat to prescribe cheaper drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Medical Association says that testing is substandard in the manufacture of generic medicines with \u2018no guarantee of quality\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Indian doctors have been told they can no longer prescribe branded drugs for their patients, provoking vehement protest from the Indian Medical Association [IMA].<\/p>\n<p>New government guidelines demand a wider use of generic drugs, which are 30%-80% cheaper, reducing the cost of medicines for millions. When doctors prescribe a medicine for fever, for example, they will have to give paracetamol, not drugs such as Panadol or Calpol. Doctors liken this to \u201crunning trains without tracks\u201d because the quality of generic drugs cannot be guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/16\/indian-doctors-rebel-over-diktat-to-prescribe-cheaper-drugs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Medical Association says that testing is substandard in the manufacture of generic medicines with \u2018no guarantee of quality\u2019Indian doctors have been told they can no longer prescribe branded drugs for their patients, provoking vehement protest fr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,566,62,647,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57590,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589\/revisions\/57590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}