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Medicine Prices

People in South Africa obtain medicines either through the public health system or from private dispensing doctors and pharmacies. Patients receive medicines for free from the public health system, but have to put up with extraordinarily long queues and inconsistent service. Private sector patients are usually insured by a medical scheme to which they pay a monthly premium.

Pharmaceutical companies sell medicines at a single exit price to the private sector. The state buys medicines for the public sector, usually but not always via a tender process.