Cancer patients to have easier access to morphine

February 21, 2014 21:34

Cancer patients will have easier access to pain-killer morphine drugs, with Parliament today passing a bill that also provides for control and regulation of narcotic drugs.

Moving the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Bill, 2011 for consideration and passage in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Finance J D Salem said though India produced 90 per cent of morphines in the world, these were not easily available in leading city hospitals.

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