For example, the generic paracitamolt cost only 30 cents a tablet while the same thing is sold under various brand names at prices raging from rupees 1.50 to 3.00 each. We see a similar huge difference in price for hundreds of other drugs including antibiotics, painkillers and drugs used for common ailments. The generic diasipan cost less than 10 cents a tablet while the same thing is sold under the brand names valium for Rs. 4.00. The price of the drugs under generic names is only a fraction of the price when they are bought under the variety of brand names. Medical research has clearly shown that in terms of efficacy and content there is no difference between the generic drug and the branded one.
Any difference is largely a feeling of mindset promoted through advertising.
So when you next have to see your family doctor or medical specialist regarding some ailment please tell him or her to prescribe medicine under generic names. They will do it. When you to go to the pharmacy, insist that you want the drugs under the generic names. Don t let yourself be persuaded or fooled in to buying highly expensive brand names which the pharmacy may be promoting in collaboration with big drug companies for their enrichment and not for your ailment. If the pharmacy says it does not have the drug under the much cheaper generic names, go to the nearest Osu Hala outlet which should have most of the essential drugs under the generic names.