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 and activist Anjali Damania seeking directions against hoarding, black marketing of N-95 masks in the State to ensure availability of these masks for 'Corona Warriors' in the State. The PIL states that the petitioners wanted to acquire PPE Kits and N-95 masks to be distributed amongst the frontline workers in Mumbai to help them during the ongoing crisis. However, during their endeavour to acquire these PPE kits and N95 masks for frontline workers the petitioners were shocked to witness rampant black marketeering and profiteering in N95 masks and the abject failure of the State machinery to implement the order dated March 13, 2020 passed under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.

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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, …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Coronavirus outbreak | Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra to get PPE’s donated by China
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus outbreak | Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra to get PPE’s donated by China

The Hindu  

Supply lines from abroad opened up on Monday with the receipt of 1.70 lakh Personal Protection Equipment coveralls donated from China, the Union Health Ministry said. An order for 80 lakh complete PPE kits had been placed on a Singapore based platform earlier and now it has been indicated that supplies will commence from April 11, 2020 with two lakh, …

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 …

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: Telangana faces shortage of masks, increase in prices amid COVID-19 scare; 28 cases confirmed in India
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus outbreak: Telangana faces shortage of masks, increase in prices amid COVID-19 scare; 28 cases confirmed in India

Firstpost  

According to ANI, Telangana is facing a shortage of N-95 face masks as demand for the item surges amid the deadly coronavirus scare Hyderabad: As the demand for N-95 masks surges amid the deadly COVID-19 scare, Telangana is facing a shortage of the item. “There is a shortage of masks in the market, especially the N-95 masks which is the …

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 …

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