{"id":235906,"date":"2023-04-03T20:33:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235906"},"modified":"2023-04-04T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:30:24","slug":"going-beyond-customs-on-full-exemption-from-basic-customs-duty-for-drugs-food-imported-for-treatment-of-rare-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/going-beyond-customs-on-full-exemption-from-basic-customs-duty-for-drugs-food-imported-for-treatment-of-rare-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Going beyond customs: On full exemption from basic customs duty for drugs, food imported for treatment of rare diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cGoing beyond customs: On full exemption from basic customs duty for drugs, food imported for treatment of rare diseases\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d <\/strong>on 3rd April 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Issues related to development and management of health<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– Issues Related to rare diseases<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– Centre has announced the full exemption from basic customs duty for all drugs and food imported for treatment of rare diseases listed under the National Policy for Rare Diseases.<\/p>\n

To avail this exemption, the individual importer must produce a certificate from specified authorities.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/strong> – Drugs for rare diseases get customs duty relief<\/a><\/p>\n

What are arguments in support of the centre move to announce exemptions?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Rare diseases are a group of diseases that occur infrequently<\/strong> in the community. So due to lack of a large number of people with disease, there is no\u00a0 incentives<\/strong> for pharma companies to produce life-saving medicines.<\/p>\n

Some of these diseases do not have any described treatment methodologies<\/strong>. For existing treatments, the drugs have to be imported and costs are high. They are inaccessible <\/strong>to a large volume of patients.<\/p>\n

The NPRD estimates that for a child weighing 10 kg, the annual cost of treatment for some rare diseases may vary from \u20b910 lakh to more than \u20b91 crore per year. Treatment is lifelong <\/strong>and drug dose and costs increase with age and weight. The duty exemption will lead to substantial savings<\/strong> for patients.<\/p>\n

What is the way forward for proper management of rare diseases?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The sheer number of diseases is estimated between 7,000-8,000 conditions, and the number of people with some form of rare diseases in India is estimated at 100 million. It makes it a problem that cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n

The government must ensure that its directions are followed in full<\/strong>. It must find innovative solutions<\/strong> for this category of patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cGoing beyond customs: On full exemption from basic customs duty for drugs, food imported for treatment of rare diseases\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 3rd April 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Issues related to development and management of health Relevance– Issues Related to rare diseases News– Centre has announced… Continue reading Going beyond customs: On full exemption from basic customs duty for drugs, food imported for treatment of rare diseases<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,2014,10498],"class_list":["post-235906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-rare-diseases","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":18,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698592913},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}