Galway nets €5m in medical card drugs charges
Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Health Service Executive has collected 5.4 million euro from the medical card prescription service in the past three years.
The scheme to charge medical card holders for prescription items was introduced 2010 with a 50 cent charge per item and was increased last year to 1 euro 50 per item.Galway pharmacies collected 5.45 million euro under the medical card prescription scheme to date.According to today's Irish Times, Fermanagh has collected the lowest amount of just over 11 hundred euro over the three year period.