FROM TODAY, Barbadians who obtain precriptions from polyclinics will have to pay the full cost for the medication at the majority of small private pharmacies.
This follows the recommendation of the Barbados Association of Pharmacy Owners (BAPO) to do so as a last-ditch effort to save many of their members’ businesses.
BAPO’s proposal, if followed, would mean that diabetics on Glyformin or Diamicron, for example, who now pay $5 to get these medications would have to pull out between $10 and $12 for them.
Asthmatics who pay $5 for a Ventolin inhaler would be charged between $15 and $20, hypertension patients on Micardis who now pay $12 would be charged $37 . . .
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