evidence: Union govt. opens AMRIT outlet for cheap cancer and heart disease drugs at AIIMS: All you need to know AMRIT shop to provide drugs for cancer and heart patients at cheapest rates. [...] - The AMRIT shop will be managed by the government-owned HLL Lifecare Ltd - The drugs would be available not only to the patients at the AIIMS to the ones at other hospitals as well - The price of around 202 drugs of cancer and 186 drugs of cardiovascular diseases has been reduced by 60 to 90 percent - The outlet will sell Docetaxel (120mg), an essential drug used for chemotherapy that originally costs around Rs 13,440, at Rs 888.75 - Another drug Carboplatin (450 mg), a drug used for treating ovarian, lungs and throat cancer, is available at only Rs 1,316.25 whereas its original MRP is Rs 2,561.57 - The shop will also have facilities for cardiac implants. Around 148 types of cardiac implants will be available at the outlet - An official report says that 2.8 million Indians are under threat of having cancer and die within a year. This initiative indeed comes at a very crucial point of time.