COLOMBO (News 1st); The list of 350 medicines with maximum prices stipulated was tabled in Parliament today.<\/p>\n
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
The price of Paclitaxel medicine, administered to cancer patients, has been reduced from Rs. 42,000 to Rs. 26,332.<\/p>\n
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
The Adalimumab injection, has been reduced from Rs. 74,500 to Rs. 40,717.<\/p>\n
The price of the blood pressure medicine Losartan Potassium has been reduced from Rs. 11 to Rs. 8.<\/p>\n
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[100052,24041,3595,2534,10474,134,78,524,3193,1255,111,139,69,90,24637,3333,12937,1336,100053,100054],"class_list":["post-149549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-100052","tag-24041","tag-by","tag-cancer","tag-control","tag-health","tag-in","tag-medication","tag-medicine","tag-medicines","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-parliament","tag-price","tag-prices","tag-reduced","tag-tabled","tag-upto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}