Sri Lankans use 1.5 million paracetamol tablets a day. All paracetamol tablets available in the market are of high quality, low cost and manufactured by the Sri Lanka Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Corporation (SPMC), a Health Ministry spokesman said.
According to the spokesman Sri Lanka needs around 47 million paracetamol tablets monthly.
The country needs around 564 million tablets annually. The SPMC will produce 30 million tablets for March while 1.6 million tablets have already been released to the market. The SPMC has increased its annual production capacity to 1,800 million tablets. It was only 1,600 million tablets per year earlier, the spokesman said.
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