JAN AUSHADHI SCHEME : Brief Introduction
Even today, a large number of Indian population still has to buy costlier, branded medicines. Generic medicines are an affordable and cost affective alternative to the branded medicines. Low-priced generic medicines are tested as per the Indian pharmacopoeial guidelines.
The access to low-priced generic drugs is very critical in ensuring health care at affordable prices. Ensuring availability of quality medicines at affordable prices to all has been the key objective of the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Government of India. The JAN AUSHADHI SCHEME, launched in 2008, envisages key initiative of opening of dedicated outlets i.e. 'Jan Aushadhi Stores' where high quality generic medicines would be sold at low prices. Such medicines would be equivalent in potency and efficacy to expensive branded drugs.
"In nutshell, quality and performance wise, the variation between established drug brand names and generics is about the same as the variation between the much saught after brands. "There will always be a slight, but not medically important, level of natural variability - just as there is for one batch of brand name drug compared to the next batch of brand name product"
--cited from the FDA notes.
There is dire necessity of propagating advocacy and awareness program about the lower priced generic medicines- their quality and therapeutic equivalence to branded medicines, to instill confidence in the minds of patients and physicians about the quality and efficacy of such drugs and also to propagate that patient ask their doctors to prescribe generic medicines
Mission Objective...
"Making quality medicines available at affordable prices for all, particularly the poor and disadvantaged through exclusive outlets of Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Kendra so as to reduce and redefine the unit cost of treatment per person."So far, there are currently 2948 Jan Aushadhi Stores (PMBJKs) have been opened across covering 695 districts or city locations in 33 states of India, where high quality generic medicines and other medical products are available at very affordable prices. [Check for : Jan Aushadhi Stores ].
S.No. | Generic Salt/Item | Unit/Size/Packing | Jan Aushadhi Price(BPPI MRP) | Average MRP of top 3 leading brands | Therapeutic Group |
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402 | Itopride Tablets 50 mg | 10's | 14.46 | 73.83 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
403 | Sulfasalazine Tablets Ec 500 mg | 10's | 18.5 | 37 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
404 | Chymotrypsin + Trypsin (1:6 ) Tablets 100K Au | 20's | 49.31 | 280 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
405 | Laxative Suspension Liqid Paraffin 3.75 ml + Milk of Magnesia 11.25 ml) | 170ml Bott | 23.93 | 104.66 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
406 | Dicyclomine 10 mg + Act. Dimethicone 40 mg Per ml | 10ml Bottle | 9.51 | 29.65 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
407 | Rabeprazole 20 mg + Domperidone 10 mg | 10's | 6.26 | 83.15 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
408 | Rabeprazole Sodium 20 mg + Itopiride Hcl 150 mg | 10's | 26.39 | 90 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
409 | Pantoprazole 40 mg + Itopride 150 mg S.R. | 10's | 31.05 | 190.67 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
410 | Magaldrate 400 mg + Simethiocone 20 mg | 170 Ml | 22.32 | 88.94 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
411 | Lactulose 10 gm/15 ml | 200 Ml | 72 | 196 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
412 | Sucralfate 1gm with Oxetacain 10 mg/10 ml Suspension | 100ml | 58 | 106.8 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
413 | Famotidine Tablets IP 20 mg | 14's | 2.03 | 4.26 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
414 | Famotidine Tablets IP 40 mg | 14's | 2.51 | 5.01 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
415 | Lactulose Syrup 10 gm/ 15 ml | 100mlbott. | 49 | 102.9 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
416 | Aluminium Hydroxide + Magnesium Hydroxide (250+250mg/5ml)Suspension | 170 Ml | 20.4 | 42.84 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
417 | Ranitidine Injection IP 50 mg/ 2ml | 2 Ml | 1.48 | 3.11 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
418 | Ranitidine HCl. 150 mg film coated Tablets IP | 10's | 3.45 | 7.25 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
419 | Ursodeoxycholic Acid Tablets IP 300mg | 10's | 114.58 | 229.16 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
420 | Pepsin 10 mg+ Diastase 50 mg Oral Liquid/5 ml | 200 Ml | 36.5 | 73 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
421 | Enyme Syrup Mix Fruit Flavour Pepsin 7.5 mg + Fungal Diastase 12.5 mg/5 ml | 200 Ml | 36 | 72 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
422 | Dicyclomine HCl (Dicycloverine) Injection IP 10 mg / ml | 2ml | 2.44 | 5.12 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
423 | Enzyme Drops Pepsin (1:3000) 5 mg + Fungal Diastase (1:1200) 33.33 mg/ml | 15ml | 15.62 | 32 | Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal-tract |
424 | Theophylline 25.3 mg+ Etophylline 84.7mg /2ml Injections | 2ml | 1.83 | 3.5 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
425 | Etophyllin +Theophylline (77 mg + 23 mg) Tabs | 10's | 1.83 | 4.55 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
426 | Salbutamol Syrup 2 mg /5 ml | 100mlbott. | 8 | 14 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
427 | Salbutamol Tablets 4 mg | 10's | 0.85 | 1.7 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
428 | Paracetamol 500 mg + Phenylephrine 10 mg+ Chlorpheniramine 2 mg Tablets | 10's | 7.57 | 31.28 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
429 | Guaifenesin 100 mg + Terbutaline 2.5 mg+ Bromhexine 8 Mg /10 ml Syrup | 100 Ml | 15.51 | 54.21 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
430 | Terbutaline 2.5 mg + Bromhexine 8 mg /10 ml Syrup | 100 Ml | 24.26 | 60.36 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
431 | Acetylcysteine Tablets 600 mg | 10's | 25.58 | 184 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
432 | Acebrophylline Capsules 100 mg | 10's | 18.13 | 78.4 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
433 | Cold Suspn.N/F (Paracetamol 125 mg + Phenylephrine Hydrocloride 5 mg | 60 Ml | 12.55 | 34.68 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
434 | Phenylephrine Hydrochloride 5.00 mg + Chlorpheniranmine Maleate 2.00 mg Drops | 15ml Bottle | 10.95 | 41.93 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
435 | Budesonide Respules 0.5 mg | 2 Ml | 9.93 | 20.85 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
436 | Salbutamol 2 mg | 10's | 0.75 | 1.58 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
437 | Salbutamol Syrup IP 2 mg /5ml | 100 Ml Bott. | 7 | 14.7 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
438 | Doxofylline Tablets IP 400 mg | 10's | 9.22 | 18.43 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
439 | Etophylline IP 115 mg + Theophylline 35 mg Tablet | 10's | 2.79 | 5.58 | Drugs acting on Respiratory tract |
440 | Clotrimazole 1% w/w Ointment | 15 G Tubes | 9 | 35.25 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
441 | Adapalene 0.1 % w/v Ointment | 15 G Tubes | 21.38 | 88.9 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
442 | Beclomethasone 0.025% W/W + Clotrimazole 1% W/W+ Gentamycin 0.1% W/W Cream | 15 Gm | 10.95 | 35.81 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
443 | Calamine Lotion 100 ml | 100 Ml Bottl. | 19.52 | 102 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
444 | Chlorhexidine Mouthwash 0.2 % W/V | 100 Ml | 16.35 | 56.33 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
445 | Fusidic Acid Cream Strength 2 % W/V | 10g Tubes | 21.15 | 84.6 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
446 | Povidone Iodine 5% W/W Ointment | 250gm Tubes/jar | 90 | 440 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
447 | Povidone Iodine 5% W/W Ointment | 15gm Tubes | 10.72 | 26.4 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
448 | Mupirocin Ointment 2 % W/W | 5gm | 39.13 | 94.13 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
449 | Dusting Powder (Povidone 5% Powder) | 10 Gm | 28.62 | 59.83 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
450 | Dandruf Shampoo Ketoconazole Shampoo 2% W/V | 100ml Bott. | 47.82 | 214.5 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |
451 | Hydroquinone 2.0% W/W + Tretinoin 0.025% W/W + Mometasone Furoate 0.1% W/W In A Cream Base Q.S | 15gm Container | 25.2 | 149.5 | Drugs acting on Skin (Topical/local Application) |