Health DG: Global drug price transparency resolution a start but more needed

KUALA LUMPUR: The World Health Assembly's adoption of a resolution for greater public disclosure of drug prices is a good start but more measures are needed, says Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

The 72nd World Health Assembly resolution on improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines, and other health-related products and other technologies was adopted on Tuesday (May 28) in Geneva, Switzerland.