{"id":746459,"date":"2026-06-19T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746459\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:15:12","slug":"maximum-retail-prices-of-60-medicines-to-be-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746459\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum Retail Prices Of 60 Medicines To Be Revised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO (News 1st) &#8211; The National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) says the maximum retail prices of 60 types of medicines will be revised.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the NMRA, Specialist Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama, said that the decision was taken due to the increase in the value of the US dollar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the revision could result in price increases for some medicines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gazette outlining the maximum retail prices of these 60 medicines was last revised in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dr. Wijewickrama said inspections and raids are underway, and legal action will be taken against pharmacies selling medicines above the approved prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLOMBO (News 1st) &#8211; The National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) says the maximum retail prices of 60 types&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,358987,490,1679,44,358986,358989,358988,1210],"class_list":["post-746459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-lka","tag-medication","tag-medicine","tag-news","tag-news-1st","tag-nmra","tag-slnews","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}