Pharmacies and hospitals still face an acute shortage of essential antibiotics typically used for babies and children. The National Coordination Center for Medicines has asked doctors to prescribe these medicines as little as possible and limit patients to one package at a time, the Volkskrant reports.
Bolivia will control drug and health service rates
Bolivia will control drug and health service rates
La Paz, Feb 23 (Prensa Latina) Operations to control the correct application of rates and the provision of services in laboratories, private clinics and pharmacies, will begin today in Bolivia to combat the excessive prices reported by the population in recent days.
The Vice Minister of Justice, Jorge Silva, in charge of the Defense of User and Consumer Rights, declared to the state channel Bolivia TV that the institutions that make up the National Council for the Supply and Control of Medicines Prices will carry out permanent inspections to protect health public.