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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502 | Metformin SR Tablets 850mg | 10's | 12.38 | 29.66 | Drugs used in Diabetes |
503 | Teneligliptin Film coated tablets 20mg | 10's | 49.5 | 95 | Drugs used in Diabetes |
504 | Voglibose 0.2mg, Metformin 500mg Tab. | 10's | 13.97 | 72.75 | Drugs used in Diabetes |
505 | Voglibose 0.3mg, Metformin 500mg Tab. | 10's | 19.89 | 100.33 | Drugs used in Diabetes |
506 | Insulin Injection IP 40 IU / ml (Insulin Human Recombinant) | 10 Ml Vial | 66.7 | 140.07 | Drugs used in Diabetes |
507 | Glipizide 5 mg + Metformin Hydrochloride 500 mg Tablets | 10's | 5.83 | 11.66 | Drugs used in Diabetes |
508 | Calcium Carbonate 1250mg + Vitamin D3 250 Iu Tablets Film Coated | 10s | 3.74 | 64.43 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
509 | Pyridoxine Hcl 10 mg+ Doxylamine 10 mg + Folic Acid 2.5 mg Tablets | 30's | 22.89 | 143.55 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
510 | Folic Acid Tablets 5 mg | 10's | 3.08 | 12.8 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
511 | Iron Hydroxide Polymaltose Complex Eq To Elemental Iron 50 mg + Folic Acid 0.5 mg /5 ml Syrup | 200 Ml | 34.5 | 89.05 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
512 | Ferrous Ammonium Citrate 160 mg + Cyano Cobalamine 7.5 mcg + Folic Acid 0.5 Mg/15 ml Syrup | 200 Ml | 17.23 | 44.95 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
513 | Ferrous Ascorbate 100 mg With Folic Acid 1.5 mg Tablets | 10's | 14.34 | 105.53 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
514 | Alfacalcidol Soft Gelatin Capsules 0.25 mcg | 10's | 19.91 | 97.45 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
515 | Calcium Carbonate 500 mg + Calcitriol 0.25 mcg + Zinc 7.5 mg Tablets | 10's | 14.18 | 105 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
516 | Vitamin D - Cholecalciferol 60000 Iu / 1 gm Sachet | 1 Sachet | 7.8 | 28.32 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
517 | Appetite Enhancer (Peptone, Minerals, Vitamins ) Syrup | 300 Ml | 50.75 | 141.5 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
518 | Vitamin E Softgel Capsules 400 mg | 10's | 10.2 | 51.36 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
519 | Calcium 500 mg+ Calcitriol 0.25 mg Tablets | 15's | 7.4 | 178 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
520 | Methylcobalamin 500 mcg Injection | 1 Ml | 7.06 | 43.9 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
521 | L-Lysine + Multivitamins (Vit-B1, B2, B3, B5, B6 ) Syrup | 200 Ml | 29.11 | 89.25 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
522 | Syrup Vitamin D3 200 IU + Vitamin B12 2.5 mcg + Calcium Phosphate eq. to elemental Calcium 82 mg / 5 ml | 225 Ml | 23.29 | 93.43 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
523 | L-methylfolate calcium 7.5 mg Tablet | 10's | 51 | 102.5 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
524 | Calcitriol Capsules 0.25 mcg | 10's | 24.3 | 133.08 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
525 | Zinc Sulphate 20 mg/ ml Oral Solution | 15 Ml | 4.58 | 9.15 | Vitamins, minerals & Food Supplement |
526 | Vecuronium Bromide Injection 4 mg | Vial | 31.4 | 81.2 | Local/General anaesthetics drugs |
527 | Lignocaine Injection IP 2% w/v | 30 Ml Vial | 13.65 | 28.67 | Local/General anaesthetics drugs |
528 | Lignocaine (Lidocaine) Hydrochloride Gel IP 2% w/v | 20g | 19.6 | 40.54 | Local/General anaesthetics drugs |
529 | Atracurium Besilate Injection25mg/2.5ml | 2.5 Ml | 24.32 | 121.57 | Local/General anaesthetics drugs |
530 | Filgrastim 300mcg/1ml Prefilled Syringe | 1's | 259.2 | 1273.28 | Miscelleneous |
531 | Ringer Lactate (IV fluid plastic container using FFS technology) | 500 Ml | 27.5 | 57.75 | Solutions Correcting water & electrolite disturbances |
532 | Water for Injection amp polypack | 10 Ml | 2.56 | 5.37 | Solutions Correcting water & electrolite disturbances |
533 | VACCINE RABIES INJECTION 2.5 IU | 1 Ml | 152.04 | 319.28 | Vaccine |