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13:45, June 29, 2007 |
Nepali citizens take medicine worth 9.061 billion rupees (around 139 million U.S. dollars) in a year, local media group's website THT Online reported on Thursday.
"Nepali citizens spent 9.061 billion rupees in the year 2005-2006. Out of the drugs consumed here in Nepal, 35 percent was supplied by domestic industries, while the rest was supplied by public and private sectors," Kumod Kumar Kafle, president of Pharmaceutical Horizon of Nepal (PHON), was quoted as saying here Wednesday at an interaction on drugs consumption.
According to a report made public at the program, which had been prepared by the PHON for the Department of Drugs Distribution,domestic industries sold allopathic drugs worth 3.187 billion rupees in retail value, while drugs worth 5.103 billion rupees were imported through different custom points.
Kafle said that the drug consumption rate decreased by 8 percent last year in comparison to the previous year.
According to the report, antibiotics comprised about 30 percentof drugs consumed in Nepal. Most of the antibiotics are imported, the report said.
And among drugs manufactured by domestic industries, amoxicilinwas the top-selling drug.
The report was based on the information collected from Nepali medicine manufacturers and customs records.
Source: Xinhua
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