Last updated on May 6th, 2021 at 08:01 am
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order imposing a maximum retail price for certain products, a top official from Malacañang said Monday.
Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said Duterte had signed EO 104, which aims to improve access to affordable medicines for the Filipinos.
A copy of the EO has yet to be released by The Palace.
Later the Department of Health (DOH) said its price regulation plan covered drugs for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic lung diseases, neonatal diseases and major cancers, high-cost therapies for chronic renal disease, psoriasis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Rates of selected medicines are projected to have an average 56 percent decrease from prevailing market rates once the EO comes into effect, the DOH said in September last year.
The Philippine Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association had opposed the measure, arguing that price regulation will kill the country’s small retailers and force manufacturers to reconsider the launch of new drugs.
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