Majority Of Government Patients Avoid Buying Prescribed Drugs Due To The Higher Prices

It is Revealed that Most Of the Sri Lankan Patients Going to the Government Hospitals are Avoid of Buying the Expensive Drugs Prescribed By the Doctors to Buy from the Private Sector Due to the Financial Problems they are facing.Doctors are Prescribing Expensive Drugs while Same Kind of Drugs are Available for Lower prices.
Doctors are Prescribing Expensive Drugs for the Patients for Diseases like Diabetes e,Hypertension,Cholesterol,Heart and Kidney Diseases.Some Tablets are Expensive as Rs30 -50 Per Tablet and Most of the Government Patients are not able to Borne the Expenses.
The Result of this is Developing their Diseases Further Hospital Sources said.
Meanwhile The Ministry Of Health says that The Patients Find Difficult to Buying these
Drugs Prescribed by the Doctors is due to they are Prescribed From Trade Names.Due to The Ban Imposed by the Ministry for Prescribing Drugs for the Patients In Trade Names Patients can Request the Doctors to Prescribe the Drugs by Generic Names Instead of Trade Names Ministry Further said.