{"id":309086,"date":"2025-11-23T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309086\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:43:09","slug":"cancer-medicine-prices-reduced-by-upto-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309086\/","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":309087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[159857,30300,5957,687,10107,97,417,243,686,34110,2105,8453,8617,1052,159859,159858,159860],"class_list":["post-309086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-159857","tag-30300","tag-by","tag-cancer","tag-control","tag-health","tag-in","tag-medication","tag-medicine","tag-medicines","tag-on","tag-parliament","tag-price","tag-prices","tag-reduced","tag-tabled","tag-upto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}