Reconsider Capping Price Of N-95 Masks Urges Bombay HC As Centre Contends Masks Already Sold At 47% Reduced Price
4 years, 6 months ago

Reconsider Capping Price Of N-95 Masks Urges Bombay HC As Centre Contends Masks Already Sold At 47% Reduced Price

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday questioned the Centre and National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority regarding the cap on price of N-95 masks considering the Drug Price Control Order which states that the government will have to ensure that prices are not increased more than 10% of prices prevailing in preceding 12 months. Division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice SS Shinde urged the NPPA to reconsider capping the price of N-95 masks in public interest and ensuring that hoarding as well as black marketing of these masks does not take place. Court was hearing a PIL filed by journalist Sucheta Dalal and activist Anjali Damania seeking directions against hoarding, black marketing of N-95 masks in the State. Clause 20 of the DPCO states that the maximum retail prices of all the medical devices would be monitored by the government to ensure that no manufacturer or importer increases the MRP of a drug more than 10% of MRP during preceding 12 months and where the increase is beyond 10% of maximum retail price, it shall reduce the same to the level of 10% of maximum retail price for next 12 months.

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Biden to give away 400 million N95 masks starting next week
2 years, 11 months ago

Biden to give away 400 million N95 masks starting next week

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to U.S. residents starting next week, now that federal officials are emphasizing their better protection against the omicron variant of COVID-19 over cloth face coverings. President Joe Biden embraced the initiative after facing mounting criticism this month over the inaccessibility — both in supply and …

Joe Biden to give away 400 million N95 masks starting next week
2 years, 11 months ago

Joe Biden to give away 400 million N95 masks starting next week

India TV News  

Highlights 400 million N95 masks will be available for free to Americans starting next week. The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to Americans starting next week, now that federal officials are emphasizing their better protection against the omicron variant of COVID-19 over cloth face coverings. The White House said the masks will be …

"Make Provisions For Doing Atleast 1 Lakh RTPCR Testing Everyday, Regulate Quantity And Ban Sale Of Faulty N95 Masks": Plea In Delhi High Court
3 years, 8 months ago

"Make Provisions For Doing Atleast 1 Lakh RTPCR Testing Everyday, Regulate Quantity And Ban Sale Of Faulty N95 Masks": Plea In Delhi High Court

Live Law  

A public interest litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking directions on Union of India and GNCTD to make provisions for doing atleast 1 lakh RTPCR testing everyday and also to explore the possibility of information sharing on import of "at home Self Testing kits" from countries where they are already in use.The plea filed by a …

FDA: N95 masks, now plentiful, should no longer be reused
3 years, 8 months ago

FDA: N95 masks, now plentiful, should no longer be reused

Associated Press  

The Biden administration has taken the first step toward ending an emergency exception that allowed hospitals to ration and reuse N95 medical masks, the first line of defense between frontline workers and the deadly coronavirus. “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is recommending health care personnel and facilities transition away from crisis capacity conservation strategies,” said the agency in a …

The US has N95 masks available – you just can’t find them
3 years, 10 months ago

The US has N95 masks available – you just can’t find them

CNN  

CNN — Nearly a year ago, Brian Wolin got involved because he wanted to help. A chiropractor for 22 years, Wolin partnered with his brother-in-law to form Protective Health Gear, a New Jersey company set on making N95 masks to help health care workers in the coronavirus pandemic. After months of thorough paperwork and rigorous testing of his N95 mask, …

Scarcity of raw material still squeezes N95 mask makers
4 years, 3 months ago

Scarcity of raw material still squeezes N95 mask makers

Associated Press  

FRESNO, Calif. — White House officials say U.S. hospitals have all the medical supplies needed to battle the deadly virus, but frontline workers, hospital officials and even the Food and Drug Administration say that’s not the case. Pressure on the medical supply chain continues today, and in “many ways things have only gotten worse,” the American Medical Association president, Dr. …

Centre & State Responsible To Ensure Availability Of N-95 Masks At Reasonable Prices: Karnataka HC
4 years, 4 months ago

Centre & State Responsible To Ensure Availability Of N-95 Masks At Reasonable Prices: Karnataka HC

Live Law  

Observing that "the Central and State Government are not helpless when it comes to regulating the price of N-95 masks and availability thereof," the Karnataka High Court on Friday, directed both governments to respond on the question of introducing regulatory measures as regards price of N95 masks. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay OKa and Justice Aravind Kumar said …

Price Regulation (Or Lack Thereof) Of N-95 Masks
4 years, 5 months ago

Price Regulation (Or Lack Thereof) Of N-95 Masks

Live Law  

The onset of the COVID 19 pandemic has brought into focus face masks and hand sanitizers, which can be considered to be the first line of defense against the virus. However, with effect from April 01, 2020, all medical devices, including N-95 masks, have been notified as drugs, vesting jurisdiction with the NPPA to control / monitor their prices. Instead, …

Govt removed masks, sanitisers from essential commodities list against manufacturers' advice
4 years, 6 months ago

Govt removed masks, sanitisers from essential commodities list against manufacturers' advice

India Today  

The Centre ignored manufacturers' advice not to remove sanitisers and masks from essential commodities list, India Today TV has learned. On June 30, AIMeD in its letter written to government said: “As the unlock process has started in India, masks, and sanitisers are more in demand than earlier.” It said face masks should remain under essential services category for the …

Madras HC Seeks Status Report From TN Govt. On Manufacture, Sale, Pricing, Quality, Usage And Disposal Of Face Masks [Read Order]
4 years, 6 months ago

Madras HC Seeks Status Report From TN Govt. On Manufacture, Sale, Pricing, Quality, Usage And Disposal Of Face Masks [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Madras High Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre and the state of Tamil Nadu on a PIL to devise and formulate proper rules and regulations as regards manufacture, quality control, specification, pricing, usage and disposal of face masks by the public at large. It was submitted that despite the fact that the World Health Organisation, the Central …

20,000 health professionals to return to work as Maharashtra regulates PPE price
4 years, 7 months ago

20,000 health professionals to return to work as Maharashtra regulates PPE price

Live Mint  

Thousands of doctors and nurses who had shut shop for the past two months in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, have begun returning to work with the Maharashtra government facilitating procurement of personal protection equipment for free to all private clinics. Availability of N95 masks however, is still an issue," said Dr Shivkumar Utture, who opened his clinic after he could …

PIL Seeking Cap On Price Of N-95 Masks : Bombay HC Asks Union Of India To Respond
4 years, 7 months ago

PIL Seeking Cap On Price Of N-95 Masks : Bombay HC Asks Union Of India To Respond

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked the Union of India to inform whether a decision has been taken regarding capping the prices of N-95 masks that are being sold across the country in light of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice SS Shinde was hearing a PIL filed by journalist …

Sucheta Dalal, Anjali Damania Move Bombay HC To Curb Black Marketing & Hoarding Of N95 Masks, Sanitizers, Gloves Etc
4 years, 7 months ago

Sucheta Dalal, Anjali Damania Move Bombay HC To Curb Black Marketing & Hoarding Of N95 Masks, Sanitizers, Gloves Etc

Live Law  

A PIL has been moved before the Bombay High Court seeking directions qua black marketing, hoarding and profiteering of N95 masks in Maharashtra as well as to ensure sufficient availability of surgical masks and other masks at fair prices.The plea has been filed by Sucheta Dalal, a business journalist and Anjali Damania, an anti-corruption activist and states that even though …

Overpriced N95 Face Masks That You Bought on Shopping Sites Could Be Fake - News18
4 years, 8 months ago

Overpriced N95 Face Masks That You Bought on Shopping Sites Could Be Fake - News18

News 18  

With the outbreak of Covid-19 in India, ensued a maddening rush to local medical shops among all of us to buy face masks — an act that even India's most hideously polluted cities failed to make us do. As a result, since many of us resorted to buying our face masks from online e-commerce stores, it now comes to light …

Start-up set for mass production of N95 masks
4 years, 8 months ago

Start-up set for mass production of N95 masks

The Hindu  

The State may not experience another shortage of N95 masks if and when a pandemic breaks out at any point in the future. A Kochi-based company, working with the Kerala Startup Mission and Maker Village, is determined to turn the shortage of N95 masks, the most common particulate-filtering facepiece respirator across the world, felt during the fight against COVID-19 being …

IIT Kanpur, Lucknow institute develop alternative to N95 masks amid Covid-19 pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

IIT Kanpur, Lucknow institute develop alternative to N95 masks amid Covid-19 pandemic

India Today  

The IIT Kanpur and Lucknow's Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences have claimed to have developed an alternative to high-end N95 face masks. Called as the positive pressure respirator system, it will address an acute scarcity of N95 masks, which are a critical component of personal protective equipment kits, IIT's mechanical engineering Prof Nachiketa Tiwari said. High-end N95 face …

Jr. docs request funds for PPE, N95 masks, sanitisers
4 years, 9 months ago

Jr. docs request funds for PPE, N95 masks, sanitisers

The Hindu  

Telangana Junior Doctors Association members have appealed to the people to donate funds to buy N95 masks, sanitisers, Personal Protection Equipment for doctors, nurses and paramedical staff on duty at government hospitals. Though the State government is taking substantial efforts to provide safety gears, the junior doctors said that there are a few gaps which needs to be filled. “At …

Steps Being Taken To Ensure Availability Of Sanitizers & Masks At Prices Fixed By Govt, Centre Tells SC
4 years, 9 months ago

Steps Being Taken To Ensure Availability Of Sanitizers & Masks At Prices Fixed By Govt, Centre Tells SC

Live Law  

The Supreme Court of India has noted the submissions put forward by the Central Government regarding the implementation of measures to prevent black marketing of sanitizers and mask and has directed for proper adherence of the same in wake of the Coronavirus outbreak. Petition had been filed by Justice of Rights Foundation seeking intervention of the Court to ensure sale …

Counterfeit N95 masks are leaking into the supply chain
4 years, 9 months ago

Counterfeit N95 masks are leaking into the supply chain

CNN  

New York CNN Business — The urgent and overwhelming demand for N95 masks has created fertile ground for scammers to start leaking counterfeits into the supply chain and to make fake deals for product that doesn’t exist. “We have a policy of having our clinicians test a small sample of medical equipment like masks before we give it to our …

Centre steps up manufacture, distribution of N95 masks, ventilators as docs complain of protective gear shortage
4 years, 9 months ago

Centre steps up manufacture, distribution of N95 masks, ventilators as docs complain of protective gear shortage

Firstpost  

The government has ramped up efforts to manufacture, procure and boost the supply of Personal Protective Equipment such as N95 masks, coveralls as well as equipment like ventilators, the Ministry for Health and Family Welfare said on Monday The government has ramped up efforts to manufacture, procure and boost the supply of Personal Protective Equipment such as N95 masks, coveralls …

Himachal chemist booked for selling overpriced N-95 masks
4 years, 9 months ago

Himachal chemist booked for selling overpriced N-95 masks

Op India  

An FIR has been registered against a chemist for allegedly selling N-95 masks at four times the fixed price amid the Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic scare in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra District on Saturday. The First Information Report was lodged against the owner of the medical store under section 3/7 of the Essential Commodities act at Kangra Police station on a complaint …

Want N95 mask? Get doctor’s prescription
4 years, 10 months ago

Want N95 mask? Get doctor’s prescription

The Hindu  

In a new mandate to curb unnecessary demand, the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration on Friday said that chemists cannot sell N95 masks without a doctors prescription. The FDA also warned that serious action would be taken against those who are found selling masks at high prices or hoarding them. “Personal Protective Equipment kits and N95 masks are being sold …

Price of N 95 mask shoots up ten fold
4 years, 10 months ago

Price of N 95 mask shoots up ten fold

Deccan Chronicle  

Mysuru: The COVID-19 scare has not only increased the price of N 95 masks but also created a scarcity in Mysuru as well as neighbouring districts sharing a border with Kerala. Another chemist said companies are hiking the price of masks irrationally. An official in the health department said they are in consultation with manufacturing companies who have capacity to …

Coronavirus outbreak: Demand for masks, sanitisers shoot up, shortage at stores in Noida
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus outbreak: Demand for masks, sanitisers shoot up, shortage at stores in Noida

India Today  

Amid a coronavirus scare in Delhi-NCR, the demand for surgical and N95 masks increased manifold in Noida on Tuesday with some people claiming they were being sold at rates much higher than the actual cost. Gautam Buddh Nagar Chemists Association President Anoop Khanna said the demand shot up around 10 am after news of suspected coronavirus cases in Noida started …

Retailers scramble to stock up on N95 masks amid spurt in demand
4 years, 10 months ago

Retailers scramble to stock up on N95 masks amid spurt in demand

Live Mint  

Pharmacy retailers in India are scrambling to cope with a surge in demand for surgical masks and especially the N95 respirator following the coronavirus epidemic even as they expressed apprehension over its shortage in the country. There has been a spurt in the demand for N95 respirator, a face mask widely considered effective in preventing contracting the virus, since the …

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