China pushes centralisation of medical procurement

The Chinese State Council has announced it will “comprehensively push” the centralisation of procurement in the country’s hospitals.

Following a meeting of the council today presided over by premier Li Keqiang, it also said it would establish a “system for tracing the factory price for drugs”, while patients would be given the choice of buying medicines in hospitals or retail drug stores.

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