People who want to obtain medicines such as cough syrup and multivitamins at the local pharmacies are being told that the insurance companies no longer cover these medicines. Irvin Jong A Liem, chairman of the Association of Pharmacists (VvA), told Times of Suriname that when Basic Health Care Insurance was launched each insurance company that offers the basic health insurance package used the general medicine index. But they have reportedly put together their own medicine index. He explained that the insurance companies do not regularly scrap medicines from the list. “Many people have this assumption,” said the VvA chairman…[+]