DOH: Price freeze for 148 medicines in areas under state of calamity
Consumers are encouraged to report overpriced medicine to the DOH Hotline ((02) 8651-7800), and the DTI Hotline (1384).
As of Thursday, 40 areas have declared a state of calamity due to the effects of tropical cyclones Crising, Dante, and Emong, as well as the Southwest Monsoon, or Habagat.
Under the Price Act, a 60-day automatic price freeze is implemented when a state of calamity is declared, covering goods such as rice, corn, bread, fresh vegetables, root crops, pork, beef, poultry, eggs, milk, coffee, sugar, cooking oil, salt, laundry soap, detergent, firewood, charcoal, candles, and certain medicines classified as essential by the DOH. —Jiselle Anne Casucian/VBL, GMA Integrated News
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