National Medical Center to conduct new prescription plan

The National Medical Center (NMC) plans to adopt a prescription plan, under which doctors will be required to prescribe 32 generic drugs of 20 active ingredients whose efficacy and safety are already established, instead of the name of a specific drug product as they do now.

In a press interview on August 27, NMC Director Kang Jae-kyu said that the plan would be implemented for outpatients o...