India exports pharmaceuticals worth $30.5 billion annually but remains heavily dependent on China for raw materials. This is emerging as one of the biggest challenges facing the country's healthcare and manufacturing ambitions.

In a Jan Aushadhi store in Patna, Bihar, a strip of paracetamol costs Rs 3. An antibiotic course that might cost several hundred rupees at a private pharmacy is available for a fraction of that amount.....

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