{"id":213276,"date":"2025-06-25T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213276\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:48:11","slug":"govt-to-impose-price-controls-on-privately-imported-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213276\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to impose price controls on privately imported drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/istockphoto-943974286-612x612-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Deputy Minister of Health Hansaka Wijemuni says price regulations will be introduced in the future for medicines imported through private pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Minister Wijemuni said that this step is being taken with the aim of strengthening the government\u2019s drug procurement process.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that although there is a Price Regulation Committee to regulate the prices of medicines imported by the private sector, no effective action has been taken through it.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Minister of Health further said that a new legal framework for this purpose has already been submitted to the Attorney General. <b>(Newswire)<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputy Minister of Health Hansaka Wijemuni says price regulations will be introduced in the future for medicines imported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,4326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-213276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114744322104240871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}