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Many people go to India to buy medicine. Is Indian medicine cheap?

For some life-saving drugs, Indian generic drugs are much cheaper than those genuine ones.

We have all seen the movie Dying to Survive. In the movie, the protagonist sells Glenin as a generic drug from India.

In this movie, we can see that the genuine merchant sells Glinin at an extremely high price, which costs 37,000 yuan, and sometimes even reaches 40,000 yuan, while the Indian generic drug only sells 500 yuan. From this, we can compare 80 times the difference between genuine drugs and Indian generic drugs. You can imagine how cheap Indian generic drugs are.

The efficacy of Indian generic drugs is similar to that of genuine drugs, but ordinary people can eat them together at a low price and survive without bankruptcy.

This is mainly because India's generic drugs do not need copyright fees, and they are imitations of foreign genuine products. No copyright fee means that the cost of generic drugs in India is greatly reduced.

From the comparison of the prices of generic drugs and genuine drugs in India, it can be seen that the production cost and raw materials of drugs are not very expensive, but the patent fee of drugs is expensive.

However, there is nothing wrong with collecting patent fees for real drugs. After all, these drugs are developed by genuine pharmaceutical companies with a lot of time, money and energy. Therefore, charging expensive medical expenses for new drugs (especially drugs for treating cancer) is mainly to protect the enthusiasm and interests of companies researching new drugs.

But for India, a developing country, its citizens are very poor and can't afford such expensive genuine drugs when they are sick. In order to take care of those citizens who are sick and can't afford medicine, the Indian government allows the manufacture of generic drugs, so Indian medicine will be very cheap.