Letters | Sunday, 22 November 2009

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Cheaper medicines, abroad

I was recently in Portugal and went to a chemist to get a supply of pills which I need to take daily and which I had forgot behind. I had to produce a doctor’s prescription to be able to buy this medication (which I had as I had asked my medical consultant to give me one for customs purposes). The same pills for a pack of 100 (these are sodium bicarbonate) cost €5.35 including 5% VAT. The last price I paid for them, some two months ago, was €13.08! Who is raking in loads of money from medication? The importer, pharmacy or the government? Or perhaps all of the above?

Rose Agius
San Gwann

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