No plan to increase medicine price

Minister of Health Dr Jamal Al-Harbi has refuted rumors about the increase in prices of medicines.

"Kuwait remains committed to the decision of the Supreme Council of Health Ministers in GCC countries to standardize the cost of importing medicines", he reiterated. The decision states unification of the importing price (CIF — cost, insurance, freight) of medicines in the GCC by using one currency and adopting the approved import cost in Saudi Arabia because it is the cheapest CIF in most cases.

He asserted the information spread on various media platforms is incorrect, indicating it is not true that a decision has been taken to increase prices of some medicines by 45 percent.