Drug categories include not only drugs for common diseases and chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, anti-infection, digestive tract diseases, but also drugs for major diseases such as lung cancer, liver cancer, kidney cancer and intestinal cancer. In this collection, sustained and controlled release dosage forms were included in antihypertensive drugs for the first time. The price of nifedipine controlled-release tablets and metoprolol sustained-release tablets decreased by 58% and 53% respectively, and the drug burden of patients with hypertension was significantly reduced. It is worth mentioning that "anti-influenza drug" oseltamivir phosphate capsules dropped from an average of 20.5 yuan per capsule to 1.65 yuan, a decrease of 93%.
At present, a total of 155 medical institutions in Xuchang have participated in the seventh batch of centralized drug procurement organized by the state. After the implementation of centralized drug procurement, the number of centralized drugs purchased by Xuchang at the national, provincial and inter-provincial levels will reach 420, and the average price will drop by more than 50%.