By unusuma.lk on (LK time)
Deputy Minister of Health and Mass Media Dr. Hansaka Wijemuni says that the price of medicines has been reduced by about 200 times due to the breaking of the monopoly maintained by certain pharmaceutical companies over the past period.
As a result, the price of a medicine purchased by the Ministry of Health for Rs. 7,000 has dropped to Rs. 370; he further emphasized during an observation visit at the Kandy District Media Unit.
The Deputy Minister also emphasized that the government’s expectation is to further break the pharmaceutical monopoly by granting the opportunity to import medicines to several companies and significantly reduce the prices of a number of medicines in the future.
