Receiving reports that there are still many drugstores in the province which have not complied with the mandatory price cuts on drugs covered by the Cheaper Medicines Law, provincial lawmakers yesterday agreed to closely monitor compliance of pharmacies to the new measure.
Likewise, the Sangguniang Panlungsod will also initiate dialogues with drugstore owners, physicians and municipal health officers to urge them to fully implement the Generics Law which was envisioned to extend affordable and effective medicines to the public.
In an interview with the Chronicle, Vice Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera said he already tasked a team to check whether drugstores are following the imposition of the price cut under the Cheaper Medicines Law.
HERRERA
The Department of Health began implementing the Cheaper Medicines Law last Saturday placing 21 prescription drugs under a 50-percent mandatory price reduction.
"We would like to stress also that generic medicines should be accessible by the public although some selected branded drugs are already made cheaper by the new law," Herrera said.
According to the vice governor, doctors should prescribe to consumers the generic equivalent of medicines which are generally more affordable.
During yesterday's SP session, a joint committee headed by Board Member Cesar Tomas Lopez was created to investigate if pharmacies abide by the Cheaper Medicine Law.
Lopez, a physician, said the Boholano consumers should now start availing of the half-priced medicines in local drugstores.
Lopez said he will be inviting to a dialogue representatives of the Bohol Medical Society, drugstore owners, chiefs of government hospitals, municipal health officers, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Bureau of Food and Drugs to discuss the implementation of the Cheaper Medicines Law and to strengthen the Generics Law. - the Bohol Chronicle
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