Mandatory inclusion of purchase price and MRP in hospital medicine bills

The Karnataka Food and Drug Administration issued an order on Saturday, October 10, making it mandatory to include both the purchase price and the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) of medicines in hospital bills. This rule applies to all government, private, and trust hospitals across Karnataka and will come into effect from November 1. The FDA also instructed that the patient's rate should not exceed the MRP, and bills must include the medicine's name, brand, batch number, manufacturing date, and expiry date.