Medical treatment outlays of 50% clinics up 50%

The Ministry of Health and Welfare said on October 28 that all medical treatment outlays of hospitals and clinics in the first half of 2001 and 2002 went up on the basis of the medical treatment outlays in the first half 2001, during which the system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice had yet to be implemented.

In the first half of 2000, the medical treatment outlays of hosp...