UNCONTROLLABLE MEDICINE HIKE IN LIBYA

Abstract

Hundreds of medicines, including life-threating and chronic diseases medicines, have raised
incredibly making them out of the reach of patients in Libya. This happen after pharmaceutical
companies increased prices more than 100 per cent during the past few months. Many of these
medicines are prescribed broadly for the treatment of common illnesses such as fever, pain, flu,
diarrhea, infection, and other diseases. The government is yet to respond to the repeated alarmraised the insistent acute shortage of medicines, some of which are emergency medicines,
prevailing across the country for the past few months. This issue has been heading from bad to
worse since the ignorance of regulatory authority of Libya to take positive actions is evident.