{"id":954062,"date":"2026-11-05T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T23:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/954062\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T23:16:21","slug":"oman-cuts-prices-of-290-medicines-by-22-4-on-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/954062\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman cuts prices of 290 medicines by 22.4% on average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MoH) reduced the prices of 290 medicines as part of its periodic review of pharmaceutical prices, with cuts reaching 88.09 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The reductions, carried out through the efforts of the Drug Safety Centre, range from 0.04 per cent to 88.09 per cent, with the average reduction reported at 22.4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The move is aimed at easing the financial burden on patients and ensuring greater access to medicines at more affordable prices.<\/p>\n<p>The periodic review of medicine prices forms part of the ministry&#8217;s efforts to enhance the affordability of treatment while maintaining the availability of medicines in the Sultanate of Oman.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MoH) reduced the prices of 290 medicines as part of its periodic review&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[492838,521772,64,63,38943,7504,16850,137,490,10559,1787,1354,2652,9074],"class_list":["post-954062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-492838","tag-22-4","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-average","tag-by","tag-cuts","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-medicines","tag-of","tag-oman","tag-on","tag-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954062","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=954062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}