The Hindu Business Line : Life-saving drugs: Out of tax net?

THE Union Health Minister, Mr Shatrughan Sinha, said that the Ministry would ask the Union Finance Ministry to keep life-saving drugs and equipment out of the tax net in the forthcoming budget. Defining `life-saving', he said that it would not be in the traditional context, but also to include widely prevalent illnesses such as diabetes.

Meanwhile, on the problem of spurious drugs, he said that he had convened a meeting of State Chief Ministers next week, to bring the problem under a single umbrella, since health was a State subject. Mr Sinha spoke to the media on the sidelines of the CII-sponsored meet.

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