PUTRAJAYA, May 7 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today directed the Ministry of Health to examine the key concerns raised by private healthcare workers about the new ruling on mandatory drug price display.

Private medical workers have opposed the ruling.

Yesterday hundreds of them, including medical doctors, held a protest outside the Prime Minister’s Office here yesterday, where they handed a memorandum detailing out why they oppose the new policy.

Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said the matter was discussed in today’s Cabinet meeting.

“The PM had asked the minister of health to study the issues (raised in the memorandum), among them why the use of Act 723…under the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living,” he said at the weekly post-Cabinet press conference here.

“Many doctors had asked why is this Act instead of Act 586 being used so the PM wants the MoH to explain this as soon as possible.”

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