Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday blamed the Centre for increasing the prices of medicines, especially those of cancer and diabetes.
“The Centre has suddenly increased the prices. The Cancer medicine which was earlier available at Rs. 7,000-8,000 now costs a lakh. Every house has one patient of diabetes but the prices of medicines have increased so much,” Banerjee said at a programme at the state-run SSKM hospital in Kolkata.
“This is inhuman. I condemn this,” she added.