The Health Ministry has decided to allow pharma companies to sell old meds at the new prices agreed upon last month for a six-week period to ensure medications in short supply remain available, ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed tells Al Shorouk. The decision to hike on medication prices, issued last month, was originally meant to apply to all meds produced after the decision, while all old meds were to be sold at the original prices. However, most companies currently have a three-month backlog of products that they say would take another three months to clear and replace, according to a member of the pharmaceuticals chamber.

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