{"id":11991,"date":"2025-01-09T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T07:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=11991"},"modified":"2025-01-09T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T07:50:30","slug":"public-burdened-further-by-inflation-medicine-prices-increased-by-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=11991","title":{"rendered":"Public Burdened Further by Inflation, Medicine Prices Increased by 300%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There has been a 300% increase in the prices of medicines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the already inflation-stricken public is burdened further, with a 70% tax imposed on medical devices as well.<\/p>\n<p>The government, which had claimed to reduce inflation to its lowest level in years, has caused a shocking increase in the prices of medicines due to a recent decision.<\/p>\n<p>According to a private TV report, more than 80,000 medicines have become over 200% more expensive, with companies transferring the entire tax burden onto the public.<\/p>\n<p>A pharma advocate stated that 2024 has been the most unfortunate year in terms of medicine price hikes, as more than 80,000 medicines have become expensive in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a 300% increase in the prices of medicines. According to reports, the already inflation-stricken public is burdened further, with a 70% tax imposed on medical devices as well. The government, which had claimed to reduce inflation to its lowest level in years, has caused a shocking increase in the prices of medicines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47,46,36],"tags":[302,215,4864,409],"class_list":["post-11991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-increased","tag-inflation","tag-medicine","tag-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}