In his post on X, the IAS officer said the price of consumables is not an elective purchase. (Credit: LinkedIn/Image enhanced by AI)IAS officer and Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe, who has made headlines for the hygiene crackdown against top eateries in Mumbai, now appears set to focus on the ‘D’ in FDA.In a post on X, the IAS officer has said that the “most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all”. “A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue,” he has said. Tukaram Mundhe’s X postIn fact, in an interview with The Indian Express recently, Mundhe was asked if the FDA was planning a crackdown on drug facilities after its food safety action