Khairy: Ministry tabling policy to put a lid on medicine prices

PARLIAMENT | The Health Ministry is undertaking efforts to address a rise in prices of pharmaceutical products through a policy that promotes transparency between manufacturers and the government.

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said his ministry will table a policy to compel pharmaceutical companies to present related manufacturing costs and prices of their medications to the government.

"This is price transparency. I want to bring a policy where pharmaceutical companies must