New Delhi: "This is carnage," the Supreme Court on Tuesday said while voicing its concern over a steep markup of ten times on cancer drugs by hospitals and batted for a uniform 16 per cent margin on all medicines.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta asked the Centre to look into the issue of hospitals mandating the purchase of medicines from their chemists and said it is the common man who suffers from this system. "This is carnage. Plain and simple.

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