Prices of 27 Essential Drugs will be reduced during this year for the benefit of patients
according to the Minister Of Health ,Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Dr.Rajitha Senaratne.
Addressing the Health Ministry staff at the New Year festival held today (01) at the Health Ministry ,Minister has stated that he has managed to reduce the Prices of 73 Essential Drugs during last few years and hoping to increase that number to 100 this year by reducing the prices of another 27 varieties of drugs .
The Soft Drink Sugar Tax that had reduced by the former President Mahinda Rajapakshe recently after he was appointed as the Minister of Finance illegally ,will be increased again Minister has stressed.Minister Dr.Senaratne has instructed the Health Ministry Secretary Wasantha Perera to prepare a cabinet paper to propose the increasing of Sugar Tax again.
Prices of Private Health Institutes will be also regulated during this year Minister has further said.
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