Angara lauds DOH for imposing price ceiling on various types of medicines

“The DOH decision would provide some degree of relief to the consumers, especially the poor,” Angara said.

Included in the new list are medicines for killer diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular, chronic lung diseases, neonatal diseases, renal disease, and major cancers. “Kung tama ang pag-aaral ng DOH na ‘generic drugs are still sold up to four times the international reference prices here and branded innovator products are sold up to 22 times higher,’ walang duda na makaturangan at makatao ang ganoong hakbang,” Angara said.

According to the Philippine Statistics Authority , per capita health spending of Filipinos was at P6,791 in 2017.

No! The market demand should drive market prices not the Government.

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