Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence day speech said that after the recent move to put a cap on the price of coronary stents, the government is working on measures to bring down the expenditure on knee surgeries. In his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort here, he said that cheap medicines, being made available through 'Jan Aushadhi Kendras' have been a blessing for the poor. "The expenditure on conducting operations, on stents have gone down in our country.
In the coming days, all facilities for carrying out knee operations will also be made available. "It is our endeavour that such expenses for the poor and the middle class goes down and we are taking steps for that," he said. The government on February 13 slashed by up to 85 percent the prices of life-saving coronary stents, tiny metal tubes inserted into the narrowed coronary arteries, a move which…
