Non-prescription drugs to be excluded from NHI reimbursement schedule.

It is widely opined that the non-prescription drugs should be excluded from the NHI reimbursement schedule in view of saving the NHI finance.

In fact many drugs classified since long time as a general drug category had been forcefully put under the prescription drug class by the medical community, claiming that physicians are entitled to prescribe any drugs including OTC drugs.

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