Question : Cancer Treatment Medicine by Central PSUs

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has taken any concrete step to make central Drug manufacturing PSUs capable in formulating cancer treatment medicines;

(b) if so, the details thereof; and

(c) the details of the prices of these medicines in comparison to such medicines formulated by private pharma companies?

ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND
FAMILY WELFARE
(SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)
(a): No Pharma Public Sector Undertaking under the Department of Pharmaceuticals is manufacturing cancer treatment medicines.
(b): Does not arise.
(c): Does not arise.