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                    [Title] => DTI taps price control councils vs profiteers during SARS scare
                    [Summary] => Profiteering will not go unpunished in the time of SARS.


The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will crack down on unscrupulous traders jacking up the prices of medicines and tools used to combat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).


Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II said his department has mobilized local price coordinating councils to field monitoring teams nationwide to check the prices of medical commodities and apprehend businessmen caught profiteering.


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                    [Title] => Manny Villar is right about budget - DEMAND AND SUPPLY by Boo Chanco
                    [Summary] => Former Speaker Manny Villar is right about the need to update the proposed year 2001 budget to take the new economic scenario. Mr. Villar is right about the need to force the government to adopt prudent spending plans so as to avoid a runaway deficit spending pattern. Even private sector corporate planners are reviewing their assumptions and plans.


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As government prepares for the first shipment of cheap imported drugs from
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that it is reducing the prices of 65 essential drugs.

Unilab, the single biggest local drug manufacturer in the country, accounts for
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Secretary Manuel Roxas II welcomed the initiative to lower drug prices.

In the list are anti-infectives such as amoxicillin
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Local pharmaceutical companies want government to limit its importation of raw
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if the Department of Health starts selling cheap imported medicines.

An official of the Chamber of Filipino Drug Manufacturers (CFDM) told reporters
that local pharmaceutical companies would be the first to succumb if the
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of off-patent drugs.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has already sent a team to India to
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Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II said his department has mobilized local price coordinating councils to field monitoring teams nationwide to check the prices of medical commodities and apprehend businessmen caught profiteering.


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Unilab, the single biggest local drug manufacturer in the country, accounts for
some 20 percent of the local pharmaceutical market and Trade and Industry
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Local pharmaceutical companies want government to limit its importation of raw
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if the Department of Health starts selling cheap imported medicines.

An official of the Chamber of Filipino Drug Manufacturers (CFDM) told reporters
that local pharmaceutical companies would be the first to succumb if the
government proceeds with its plan to import from India and other cheap sources
of off-patent drugs.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has already sent a team to India to
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DOH warns violators of drug price ceiling

By Sheila Crisostomo | February 19, 2020 - 12:00am

The Department of Health yesterday warned drug manufacturers and pharmacies that they would face penalties if they violate...

Headlines

DTI taps price control councils vs profiteers during SARS scare

By Marianne V. Go | April 29, 2003 - 12:00am

Profiteering will not go unpunished in the time of SARS. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will crack down on unscrupulous traders jacking up the prices of medicines and tools used to combat Severe Acute...

Headlines

Manny Villar is right about budget - DEMAND AND SUPPLY by Boo Chanco

November 24, 2000 - 12:00am

Former Speaker Manny Villar is right about the need to update the proposed year 2001 budget to take the new economic scenario. Mr. Villar is right about the need to force the government to adopt prudent spending...

Business

Unilab to reduce prices of 65 essential drugs

May 12, 2000 - 12:00am

As government prepares for the first shipment of cheap imported drugs from India, United Laboratories, a Filipino-owned drug company, announced yesterday that it is reducing the prices of 65 essential drugs. Unilab,...

Business

Local drug firms seek limited importation

By Des Ferriols | April 12, 2000 - 12:00am

Local pharmaceutical companies want government to limit its importation of raw materials for pharmaceutical products, saying they will not be able to compete if the Department of Health starts selling cheap imported...

Business