{"id":155317,"date":"2025-11-23T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155317\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:36:08","slug":"cancer-medicine-prices-reduced-by-upto-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155317\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Medicine Prices Reduced by upto 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO (News 1st); The list of 350 medicines with maximum prices stipulated was tabled in Parliament today.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority, Specialist Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama, stated that accordingly, the prices of many types of medicines have decreased by various percentages, subject to a maximum reduction of 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The price of Paclitaxel medicine, administered to cancer patients, has been reduced from Rs. 42,000 to Rs. 26,332.<\/p>\n<p>The price of another medicine given to cancer patients, the Cisatracurium Besilate injection, has been reduced from Rs. 3,157 to Rs. 2,610.<\/p>\n<p>The Adalimumab injection, has been reduced from Rs. 74,500 to Rs. 40,717.<\/p>\n<p>The price of the blood pressure medicine Losartan Potassium has been reduced from Rs. 11 to Rs. 8.<\/p>\n<p>The National Medicines Regulatory Authority stated that the price of Mebendazole , used for parasitic worm infections, has been reduced from Rs. 83 to Rs. 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLOMBO (News 1st); The list of 350 medicines with maximum prices stipulated was tabled in Parliament today. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[87597,87601,594,258,6634,103,61,5493,60,371,1357,2262,40009,26145,2494,10684,87599,87598,87600],"class_list":{"0":"post-155317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-87597","9":"tag-87601","10":"tag-by","11":"tag-cancer","12":"tag-control","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-in","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-medication","18":"tag-medicine","19":"tag-medicines","20":"tag-on","21":"tag-parliament","22":"tag-price","23":"tag-prices","24":"tag-reduced","25":"tag-tabled","26":"tag-upto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}