Old fair price pharmacies get new ‘affordable pharmacy’ signboards

Hospitals say discounted medicines have long been available through their pharmacies.

Thapathali-based Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital has been running a fair-price pharmacy for years, through which the hospital administration has been selling medicines at discounted prices. Patients seeking treatment at the hospital, as well as others buying medicine from its pharmacy, receive an average discount of around 40 percent.