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” ““Tees rupiya (Rs30),” the store manager said.

The transaction is over within minutes.

No questions asked, no prescription needed, no receipt provided.Vigora is actually a genuine generic version of Viagra and marketed by German remedies division of Cadila Healthcare Ltd, an Ahmedabad-based company that in turn gets the drug from HAB Pharmaceuticals & Research Ltd in Dehradun.

A spokesperson for Cadila said the genuine Vigora is usually sold for about Rs110 and as a prescription drug.

While the one obtained from Bhagirath Palace does have a batch number as well as both a manufacturing and expiry date, its cut-rate price suggests it is quite unlikely to be the real Vigora but more likely to be a knock-off that is extremely well packaged, down to the printed laundry list of instructions to patients inside the box.“There is a big menace of spurious drugs,” says a senior Cadila executive who did not want his name used.

“Discounts can make a drug that costs Rs106 cheaper by around Rs20-Rs25, but if it is selling at Rs30, then there must be something wrong with it.”Indeed, a 2004 survey by ...

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