{"id":48477,"date":"2025-09-07T03:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48477\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T03:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:29:11","slug":"council-slashes-gst-on-key-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48477\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Slashes GST On Key Medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How Patients Gain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For families struggling with treatment bills, this comes across as a huge relief. Previously, a drug with a base price of Rs 1 lakh would cost Rs 1.12 lakh after addition of GST. Now, the same drug would be available for Rs 1 lakh after the exemption. For a patient on repeated cycles of such medicines, the savings can be a lot. Even routine prescriptions, which will now attract only five per cent GST, will mean more saving for the buyer or patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Patients Gain For families struggling with treatment bills, this comes across as a huge relief. Previously, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[26727,110,4144,22356,15168,718,18,35916,16234,135,474,7005,19,17,35919,462,11025,35920,3283,18243,11028,35915,35918,35917,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-48477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-affordability","9":"tag-cancer","10":"tag-chemotherapy","11":"tag-compliance","12":"tag-devices","13":"tag-drugs","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-exemption","16":"tag-gst","17":"tag-health","18":"tag-healthcare","19":"tag-hospitals","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-kits","23":"tag-medication","24":"tag-medicines","25":"tag-mrp","26":"tag-patients","27":"tag-pricing","28":"tag-procurement","29":"tag-rarediseases","30":"tag-relief","31":"tag-taxcut","32":"tag-treatment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}