Customs duties on imported medicines for personal use and food for special medical use, have been removed. Duty on imported medicines typically ranges from 5% to 11%. Last year\u2019s Budget exempted 36 life-saving drugs from basic customs duty. Budget has also proposed strengthening of India\u2019s drug regulatory and clinical research ecosystem and creation of a national network of 1,000 accredited clinical trial sites.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Customs duties on imported medicines for personal use and food for special medical use, have been removed. Duty on imported medicines typically ranges from 5% to 11%. Last year\u2019s Budget exempted 36 life-saving drugs from basic customs duty. Budget has also proposed strengthening of India\u2019s drug regulatory and clinical research ecosystem and creation of a… Read More »In times of turmoil, a healing touch: Cancer drugs, med foods get cheaper in Budget<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":89302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}