Cheaper medication in store

HEFEI: Penicillin, one of the first and most effective antibiotics, is set to help patients at rural hospitals and clinics again as part of ongoing healthcare reform.

The antibiotic, one of the cheapest of its kind, was previously disappearing from under-subsidized hospitals across the country which were struggling to survive by selling expensive drugs, experts said.

The reform is expected to reverse the nationwide, profit-driven abuse of antibiotics that is particularly rampant in cities.