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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102 | Cefoperazone 1 gm Inj. | Vial | 31.2 | 292.93 | Antiinfective Drugs |
103 | Cefotaxime Sodium Injections 1000 mg | Vial & Wfi | 15.93 | 31.85 | Antiinfective Drugs |
104 | Cefotaxime Sodium Injections 250 mg | Vial & Wfi | 7.88 | 15.75 | Antiinfective Drugs |
105 | Cefpodoxime 100 mg | 10's | 35.9 | 104.47 | Antiinfective Drugs |
106 | Ceftazadime 1000 mg Injections | Vial & Wfi | 66.83 | 194.19 | Antiinfective Drugs |
107 | Ceftazadime 500 mg Injections | Vial & Wfi | 44.33 | 110 | Antiinfective Drugs |
108 | Ceftriaxone + Sulbactam (1000 mg + 500 mg) Inj. | Vial & Wfi | 38.89 | 103.4 | Antiinfective Drugs |
109 | Ceftriaxone + Tazobactum 1000 mg + 125 mg Inj. | Vial & Wfi | 44.46 | 140.71 | Antiinfective Drugs |
110 | Ceftriaxone +Sulbactam (250 mg + 125 mg) | Vial & Wfi | 15.82 | 45.48 | Antiinfective Drugs |
111 | Ceftriaxone +Sulbactam (500 mg + 250 mg) Injections | 10ml Vial & Wfi | 29.66 | 80.5 | Antiinfective Drugs |
112 | Ceftriaxone Injections 1 g | 5ml Vial & Wfi | 23.98 | 47.95 | Antiinfective Drugs |
113 | Cefuroxime Axetil 250 mg film coated Tablets | 10's | 66.37 | 129 | Antiinfective Drugs |
114 | Cefuroxime Axetil 500mg film coated Tablets | 10's | 128.86 | 383.54 | Antiinfective Drugs |
115 | Cephalexin 125 mg DT | 10's | 12.04 | 51.83 | Antiinfective Drugs |
116 | Cephalexin 250 mg Caps | 10's | 24.09 | 56.3 | Antiinfective Drugs |
117 | Cephalexin 500 mg Caps | 10's | 51.34 | 125.2 | Antiinfective Drugs |
118 | Ceprofloxacin 250 mg+ Tinidazole 300 mg Film Coated Tablets | 10's | 22.12 | 75.63 | Antiinfective Drugs |
119 | Levofloxacin 250mg film coated Tablets | 10's | 19.08 | 40.9 | Antiinfective Drugs |
120 | Meropenem 1gm Inj. | Vial & Wfi | 255.41 | 1437 | Antiinfective Drugs |
121 | Norfloxacin 400 mg+Tinidazole 600mg Film Coated Tablets | 10's | 32.35 | 64.4 | Antiinfective Drugs |
122 | Ofloxacin + Ornidazole (200 mg + 500 mg) film coated Tablets | 10's | 22.55 | 96.83 | Antiinfective Drugs |
123 | Ofloxacin 200 mg film coated Tablets | 10's | 14.8 | 52.6 | Antiinfective Drugs |
124 | Ofloxacin 400 mg film coated Tablets | 10's | 26.2 | 133.83 | Antiinfective Drugs |
125 | Roxithromycin 150 mg film coated Tablets | 10's | 25.2 | 93.28 | Antiinfective Drugs |
126 | Roxithromycin Tablets I.P. film coated strength 300 mg | 10s | 48.05 | 167.84 | Antiinfective Drugs |
127 | Tinidazole 300 mg film coated Tablets | 10s | 9.45 | 25.7 | Antiinfective Drugs |
128 | Tinidazole 500 mg film coated Tablets | 10's | 12.19 | 39.61 | Antiinfective Drugs |
129 | Vancomycin Intravenous Infusion 500 mg | Vial & Wfi | 90.82 | 355.13 | Antiinfective Drugs |
130 | Fluconazole 150 mg Tablets | 10's | 23.18 | 109.9 | Antiinfective Drugs |
131 | Levofloxacin Infusion 500 mg | 100ml Bott. | 25.72 | 112.16 | Antiinfective Drugs |
132 | Metronidazole 5 mg / ml Infusion | 100ml | 7.5 | 15 | Antiinfective Drugs |
133 | Albendazole (200 mg / 5ml) Syrup | 10 Ml Bott. | 7.02 | 15.9 | Antiinfective Drugs |
134 | Albendazole 400mg Tabs | 10's | 18 | 71.5 | Antiinfective Drugs |
135 | Metronidazole Film Coated Tablets 200 mg | 10's | 2 | 4 | Antiinfective Drugs |
136 | Metronidazole Tablets 400 mg | 10's | 3.75 | 7.5 | Antiinfective Drugs |
137 | Ornidazole 500 mg film coated Tablets | 10's | 14.9 | 72.35 | Antiinfective Drugs |
138 | Arteether 150 mg / 2ml inj | 2ml Vial | 13.8 | 92.78 | Antiinfective Drugs |
139 | Chloroquine Phosphate 250 mg film coated Tablets | 10's | 3.9 | 7.94 | Antiinfective Drugs |
140 | Primaquine Tablets 15 mg | 10's | 8.34 | 42.6 | Antiinfective Drugs |
141 | Artesunate Injection 60 mg | 1 Vial | 24.12 | 194.49 | Antiinfective Drugs |
142 | Artemether 80 mg + Lumefantrine (Banflumetol) 480 mg Sr Tablets | 6's | 55.89 | 129 | Antiinfective Drugs |
143 | Imipenem & Cilastatin Inj(500mg+500mg) | Vial& Wfi | 384.25 | 1316.83 | Antiinfective Drugs |
144 | Clarithromycin Tablets 500 mg | 4's | 66.23 | 183.16 | Antiinfective Drugs |
145 | Itraconazole Capsules 100 mg | 4's | 20.15 | 45.29 | Antiinfective Drugs |
146 | Terbinafine 250 mg Tablets | 7's | 31.66 | 94.33 | Antiinfective Drugs |
147 | Acyclovir Dispersible Tablets 800 mg | 5's | 35.3 | 149 | Antiinfective Drugs |
148 | Cefuroxime 500 mg+ Clavulanic Acid 125 mg (As Pot. Clavulanate) Tablets | 6's | 122.14 | 275.1 | Antiinfective Drugs |
149 | Ketoconazole Tablets 200 mg | 10's | 25.9 | 258.51 | Antiinfective Drugs |
150 | Amoxycillin And Potassium Clavulanate Tablets (875 mg + 125 mg) | 6's | 62.57 | 175.29 | Antiinfective Drugs |
151 | Clindamycin Inj 300 mg / 2 ml | 2 Ml | 51.65 | 107.26 | Antiinfective Drugs |