Ministry Of Health Wrestling To Prevent Price Hikes

Lithuania's Ministry of Health is facing significant challenges relating to providing access to affordable medicines. With the state's fiscal situation looking tenuous and medicine value-added tax (VAT) hikes due to be implemented in July 2009, the State Medicines Agency (SAM) has implemented a programme for improving availability and price reduction - largely geared towards attaining price reductions from pharmaceutical

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