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Hospitals at 1.6 trillion won losses after medical reform.
The Korea Hospital Association reported through their recent survey that the business after the medical reform program launched last year had made about the total 1.6 trillion won of losses on average in 1999 and 2000...
Government subsidy for drug logistic centers.
The Drug Logistic Cooperative Association (Chairman: Lee Hui-koo) may get the total operating expenses for establishment of the drug logistic center from the government. The Association made it clear that they would f...
National Assembly may talk on revised bill in April
The revised bill of the pharmaceutical affairs law may not debate on March 8 as originally expected due to much distant disparity between the ruling and the opposition parties.
Then, the issue may put off until the...
Influx of new drugs by multinational drug corporations.
After the implementation of the government medical reform program only winner was the foreign multinational drug corporations with their original branded products along with abundant new pipe line products.
Their s...
Pharmacist no obey to government medical reform policy.
The KPA took a rally under the flag of "National pharmacist's disobey campaign rally against the government's bad revised bill of pharmaceutical affairs law", protesting against the government's plan to exclude inject...
Reduced drug prices to apply from April.
The medical insurance drug price reduction for 3,441 products announced as of March 7 seems to be applied from April 1.
In fact the MOHW announcement of the drug price slash on March 2 was pretty much confusion esp...
R&D commission for bio-engineering newly set up.
In the KPMA directorate meeting on March 6 they decided to establish "R&D Commission for Bio-engineering" for the development of bio-engineering science in the 21th century with the objectives of playing as a pioneer ...
Political circle in incoherence over revised bill.
Over the current revised bill of the pharmaceutical affairs law containing the exclusion of injectable drugs from the medical reform program, the political circle, either the ruling or the opposition party, stood in a...
Massive price slash over 3,441 insurance drugs.
The MOHW announced in the meeting of the Helath Insurance Examination and Coordination Commission on Feb. 27 that the medical insurance prices for 3,441 drugs were reduced by 78.77% in high and 0.01% in low, thus the ...
Direct election for president of KPA from 2004.
The KPA's article of incorporation will be revised in the 47th national congress of the KPA on Feb. 28 to the direction that from year 2004 the presidents of the national, the district and the provincial pharmaceutica...
