Pharmaceutical firms call for drug price cuts to be made after 2014 by phase

Local drug firms proposed that the government’s plan to cut drug prices by an average of 17 percent starting next year be taken into effect by phase after 2014 to soften the blow on them, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare said.

In a workshop held between October 11 and 12, representatives from the industry called on the government to readjust the period and rate of drug price c...