Varanasi is home to an estimated 700 children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), along with about 1,500 with Moderate Acute Malnourishment (MAM), according to the district administration records.
A dose given to a new born even after six months will be as effective since most babies are naturally immune to Hepatitis-B infection due to passive transfer of antibodies from the mother.
This was the second medical device to be put under price control since prices of cardiac stents were capped in February this year.
Outlook previously detailed the unscrupulous ways in which medical device manufacturing companies and hospitals fleece patients into getting expensive surgeries and transplants to make money
MicroPort, which entered India after price control regime was put in place, is being probed for registering its Indian distributors as importers or manufacturers
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