
Why not regulate prices of life-saving devices?
With cardio-vascular diseases on the rise, the number of angioplasties being performed has doubled in the country in the past five years. It was a scam, and patients were being fleeced blatantly. There were no ethics followed,” he said. “Why should the patient be forced to buy a stent from a particular company? Why wasn’t there any regulatory mechanism in place? These questions disturbed me.”