Around 200 Million Antibiotics Sold During Last Year-Health Minister

Around 200 million Antibiotic  Drugs had sold during last year(2017) in Sri Lanka following the price reduction of 48 essential Drugs implemented by the Ministry of Health according to Health Minister Dr.Rajitha Senaratne.

Due to the price reduction of Essential Drugs more people are now purchasing quality drugs after producing prescriptions issued by Doctors the Minister has stressed.

Addressing an event held at Bandaranaike Menorial International Conference Hall(BMICH) in Colombo on Empowerement of the Sri Lankan Primary Care Health System under the World Bank Aid,Minister has said that the annual.production of the State Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Corporation (SPMC) had been increased to 4 billion from.2 billion.