FREE MEDICINE
PLAN TO OPERATE SOON
IN AUSTRALIA.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CANBERRA, January 14.
A free medical prescription service will soon operate throughout Australia. Announcing this, the Federal Minister of Health, Senator’ Fraser, said a Bill to authorise the scheme would be one of the first measures to be submitted to the Commonwealth Parliament at its next session, which opens on February 9. Medicines prescribed by doctors to about 500 standard prescriptions will be made up by chemists without charge. The Government will pay the chemists a fixed fee for each prescription.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1944, Page 3
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