Patients flock North for drugs at fraction of cost here

Private patients are flocking over the border to buy their prescription drugs in the North at a fraction of what they pay at home.

Heart patients who don’t have medical cards can save up to €80 on a month’s supply of six, commonly prescribed, cardiac drugs by having their prescriptions dispensed in the North. This is the savings equivalent of about €960.

One drug in the Republic can cost four times the total price of the six drugs combined in the North.