Health experts call for progressive GST on antibiotics to curb antimicrobial resistance - Times of India

Hyderabad: Ahead of the Union Budget 2026–27, public health experts called on the Centre to introduce a progressive goods and services tax (GST) regime on antibiotics, especially last-resort drugs, to curb the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).In a letter to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Hyderabad-based Dr Ranga Reddy Burri, president of the Infection Control Academy of…