According to data from QuintilesIMS, overall prescriptions of abortion pills in India numbered 359,148 in the financial year 2017, lower than 407,260 in 2016. Ltd’s Mifty Kit are the top selling brands of abortion pills. “Distributors supply the abortion pills only when they have a written order from doctors or the maternity clinics or hospitals,” said the Mumbai-based stockist cited above. For pregnant women with little awareness of the MTP Act, doctors often become the last resort for access to medical information and abortion pills. She needed a doctor because the MTP pills she had bought did not induce any bleeding, the sign of a successful abortion.

Source: Mint November 16, 2017 22:18 UTC