To curb the government expenditure as well as household spending on medical expenses, Maldives plans to impose price ceiling on pharmaceutical drugs next year to prevent excessive pharmaceutical drug use and prescription.
In addition, Maldives also plans to work on solidifying policies on the procurement of drugs, aiming to reduce the prices of pharmaceutical drugs.
The price ceiling measure is not only help reducing the government spending, but also serves as consumer protection measure. To read more, please click.
Source: Sun Online
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