LABIS: Free medicine will continue to be handed out to those seeking treatment at public hospitals as most of them come from the lower-income group.
However, the Health Ministry is studying the possibility of imposing fees on medicines used to treat health complaints stemming from an affluent lifestyle such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes or high cholesterol.
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