IN-HAND: GOVERNMENT MAKES REMEDIES

The Government has authorized an increase to from next day 31 between 1.02 percent and 5.68 percent pharmaceutical prices, set by the Board of market regulation of Medicine. If all manufacturers adopt the ceiling of readjustment, the average percentage of 3.35%. High around 9 thousand medicines come on the wrong side of the tracks of the campaign launched in February by Abrafarma (Brazilian Association of networks of Pharmacies and Drugstores) and by Interfarma (Association of research-based pharmaceutical industry) that asks the tax reduction for medicines. A petition was brought to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate and must reach the Ministry of health and the State Governments.