New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has integrated Pharma Jan Samadhan and Pharma Sahi Daam into a single digital portal to give citizens unified access to medicine price information and grievance redressal, an official statement said on Thursday.

It will help citizens to access both the services — medicine price information and grievance redressal services — seamlessly through the app and portal, the statement from Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers said.

The integrated portal is operational with immediate effect and public can avail both the services through the unified Pharma Sahi Daam interface. The new unified platform enhances transparency, accountability, public participation, and access to affordable medicines, the statement noted.

The Pharma Sahi Daam platform was developed to provide consumers with instant access to the prices of scheduled and non-scheduled medicines, helping them verify that medicines are being sold within government-approved price limits.

Pharma Jan Samadhan aims to facilitate the reporting and resolution of complaints related to medicine pricing, the ministry said.

While both initiatives were already integrated at the mobile application level, these initiatives previously operated through separate web portals, the statement said.

The ministry said that users can now access both services seamlessly through the unified Pharma Sahi Daam web portal and mobile app, available on Google Play Store.

National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) was constituted through a Government of India Resolution in 1997 as an attached office of the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP), Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers.

As an independent regulator of pricing of drugs, NPPA holds the responsibility of fixing and revising drug prices as per the provisions of the Drugs Prices Control Order (DPCO), 2013, monitoring compliance and availability of drugs and rendering advice on pharmaceutical policies.

—IANS

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