Charles Santiago says the government and private sector should negotiate fair prices, as in UK and Australia.
PETALING JAYA: Klang MP Charles Santiago has suggested that the government take control of the cost of cancer medicines at private hospitals, through negotiations with the private sector.
Santiago said that in 2011, one in every 10 men and one in every nine women in Malaysia were diagnosed with cancer. “These records are from 2011, now the situation could be worse.” “And they give up as some of the pills are so expensive. Sometimes people do crowdfunding but still there is only so much that can be raised,” he said referring to a case where a woman with breast cancer had to take 80 pills with each pill costing her RM500.
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