iconimg Friday, December 13, 2013  HT Correspondent Faidkot,
December 31, 2012 More dangerous than cancer is the malignant
fleecing of patients. Cancer patients are being forced to pay
double to 10 times the market price of medicines. Members of the
Bhai Kanhaiya Cancer Roko Sewa Society, who made the allegation
on Monday at a press conference here, brought drugs on the
market and retained bills to prove the allegations.  "If so much
is charged over and above the market price," said Gurpreet Singh
Chandbaja, president of the society, "you can imagine the
chemists' profit over the wholesale price."  'Bought over' It
seems that drug companies have bought not only doctors but also
political parties and leaders who might have interests in the
pharmaceutical business, the society has said. "It seems to be a
strategy to prevent the government from controlling the price of
drugs," said Kultar Singh, an office-bearer of the society.
Buying some cancer medicines to give away to patients, the
society was shocked at th