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Cheap medicine fror the masses

13 May 2007, JAKARTA - Indonesia has launched a program that sells quality medicines for prices as low as 1,000 Rupiah (8 eurocent) to benefit the poor people in the country. Health Minister Dr. Siti Fadilah Supari said that the medicines will be provided in adequate quantities throughout Indonesia.

The recently launched program would ensure that medicines were available to all people, she states on the website of the Health Ministry. The cheap medicines are not sold at public pharmacies or hospitals but at stalls and small medicine shops in the villages themselves, so they are more easy to reach.