Prices in Indonesia of common drugs for hypertension and high blood pressure are two to nearly four times the prices in Malaysia, a check by CNA found.
Medicine prices are three to five times higher in Indonesia than Malaysia, says Indonesia ’s health minister. JAKARTA: President Joko Widodo has tasked his Cabinet to immediately tackle high drug prices and the cost of medical equipment in Indonesia .
Malaysia is among countries with the lowest medicine prices; drugs there can cost half the global average, according to British digital healthcare group Medbelle’s 2019 Medicine Price Index. A box of Twynsta containing four blisters costs RM66 in Malaysia – or about IDR 55,000 per blister – but CNA found the drug being sold for IDR196,700 per blister at a well-known pharmacy chain in Indonesia. Drugs are typically sold in single blisters in the country.
Analysis: An Indonesian minister has slammed ‘rush’ over a proposed housing fund. Is discontent brewing against Jokowi? For example, the government does not impose import duties on finished medical devices such as ultrasound machines, but imposes a 15 per cent import duty on raw materials brought in to be assembled domestically.
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