Palampur, Nov. 15 -- Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister and former union Minister Shanta Kumar today welcomed the Centre's decision to reduce the prices of around 137 cancer medicines, saying the move would provide annual relief worth Rs 3,000 crore to cancer patients across the country.
In a statement issued here, he congratulated and thanked the Central Government for its decision but questioned why patients had been subjected to an alleged annual financial burden of Rs 3,000 crore earlier and who was responsible for it.
Shanta Kumar said that during his tenure in the Rajya Sabha, when he headed the Standing Committee on Commerce, the committee had conducted an in-depth study of medicine prices for an entire year.
The committee had...