{"id":987653023,"date":"2021-06-09T03:19:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/senegal-explanations-for-the-rise-in-the-price-of-medicines-and-nutritional-supplements\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T03:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:19:40","slug":"senegal-explanations-for-the-rise-in-the-price-of-medicines-and-nutritional-supplements","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/senegal-explanations-for-the-rise-in-the-price-of-medicines-and-nutritional-supplements\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal: Explanations for the rise in the price of medicines and nutritional supplements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since May 24, pharmaceutical news has been marked by a pricing change for a category of products&nbsp;with hybrid status, half-drug and half-nutritional supplement.<\/p>\n<p>This increase follows a reclassification in the customs nomenclature of this category of products, making them subject to a gate tax from which they were previously exempt.<\/p>\n<p>Of the nearly 4,000 medicines dispensed in pharmacies, 220 items are affected. As a result of this change, the price&nbsp;of the product will change, with VAT being applied to the retail price in pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homeviewsenegal.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/medicaments-et-complements-nutritionnels-pourquoi-la-hausse-des-prix\/\">Explanations<\/a> with<strong><br \/>\n  &nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr Jules Charles KEBE, Chairman of the Comit\u00e9 Tripartite Douanes-DPM-Grossistes-R\u00e9partiteurs.<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since May 24, pharmaceutical news has been marked by a pricing change for a category of products&nbsp;with hybrid status, half-drug and half-nutritional supplement. This increase follows a reclassification in the customs nomenclature of this category of products, making them subject to a gate tax from which they were previously exempt. Of the nearly 4,000 medicines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987530186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[115],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987653023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987653023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987653023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987653023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}