The procedure itself was simple: Give the woman pills and tell her how to take them. The law governing medical abortions in India gives doctors the final authority to prescribe abortion pills and patients must take them only under their supervision. The drugs used for medical abortions are mifepristone and misoprostol, both of which are under India’s National List of Essential Medicines and thereby under government price control. The total market for abortion pills in India is around Rs400 crore, with Mankind Pharma and Cadila Healthcare taking a share of 25% each, as per QuintilesIMS data. “Our job is only to make sure doctors (and clinics) prescribing abortion pills are registered with us (under the MTP Act).”

Source: Mint November 09, 2017 22:52 UTC