Pricey problems with medicine


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 19 May 2019

Killer cost: A patient who wants to be known only as Dolah, 54, says he takes nine-and-a-half pills every morning for his diabetes and related medical conditions. He also has to have two insulin jabs a day. Medication, insulin and specialists visits cost a whopping RM2,000 a month, he says.

THERE is a global “war” being waged in the health industry.

Civil societies and several governments in poor as well as rich countries – including Malaysia – are up in arms over pharmaceutical companies setting prices so high that some life-saving drugs are beyond the reach of many.

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