South Africa: Health Department Tackles Medicine Price Fixing

13 February 2008

Pretoria — The Department of Health has vowed to get rid of price fixing by pharmaceutical companies in the country's health industry.

In order to achieve this, the Department said it will work together with other state agencies to rid the healthcare industry of collusion practices aimed at exploiting consumers.

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