A woman from Portugal is surprised by the cheap prices of medicines in India. He bought cough medicine for just ₹252, which is much lower than the prices in Europe. The video narrating his experience has gone viral on social media.
A video of a woman from Portugal is going viral on social media, in which she is expressing her surprise at the cheap prices of medicines in India. This woman named Ines Faria has shared this experience of India on her Instagram page. Actually, Ines had a severe cough, for which she had gone to a common medical shop to get medicine.
Ines bought a bottle of cough syrup and three packets of pills for sore throat. For all this the shopkeeper asked him only Rs 252. In the video, Faria tells that compared to the prices in Europe, it is less than 2 euros.
Ines could not hide her joy and surprise after seeing the medicine bill. While sharing the video, he wrote in the caption, ‘The price of medicines in India really shocked me. I went to the shop thinking that it would cost a lot of money. But I had never imagined even in my dreams that the medicine would be available at such a low price. Now I am thinking of shifting here.
After the video went viral, many people commented. Many people wrote that even for common medicines in foreign countries, one has to pay ten times more than this. One user wrote, ‘This video shows how accessible India’s healthcare sector is to the common people.’ Another user commented, ‘Now I understand why people coming from abroad buy medicines in bulk from India.’