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Meeting of Council of Ministers fixes retail price of widely used drugs

Kathmandu, July 6: The government has fixed the retail price of 96 different types of medicines to come into immediate effect.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers today, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Health and Population, determined the retail price of 18 different widely-used drugs and 78 other drugs used for protracted diseases like cancer. Every drug store has to display the price list.

This decision comes in the midst of complaints that the price of medicines was fixed arbitrarily in the sale and distribution of the medicines.

Minister for Information and Communications Dr Minendra Rijal, who is also the Government spokesperson, said the decision would be implemented forthwith and the Ministry of Health has been entrusted with this responsibility.

The meeting has, likewise, decided to retain the land property in the name of the late king Birendra, queen Aishwarya and members of their family at various places in Lalitpur, Sindhupalchok, Kaski and Kathmandu at the time of their death in the name of the Nepal Trust. The details of this would be made public later on.

Similarly, the bank accounts in the name of HM Treasury in the Standard Chartered Bank would also be transferred to the Nepal Trust.

The meeting of the Council of Ministers also provided approval for presenting the Bill on Public Procurement (First Amendment) Act, 2072 in the Legislature-Parliament.

The government has assigned Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Suresh Man Shrestha the Chairman of the Nepal Airlines Corporation Board of Directors.

Minister Rijal said that the preliminary list of the poor households has been made public and 356,418 households fulfilling the standard and criteria have been identified out of the 1,240,350 households of the 25 districts. The list of a total 507,376 households including the 150,958 households would be finalised and made public later on.

A decision has also been taken to provide Rs 40,000 a month to the Supreme Court justices as the construction of the integrated residence for them has not been completed.

The Council of Ministers today appointed former Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Education Gyani Yadav to the vacant post of member of the Education Service Commission. RSS

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