GPO to sell impotence pill
An anti-impotence drug manufactured by the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation will go on sale at nine GPO shops in Bangkok from October 1 at a price of Bt25 per 50-milligram tablet.
A doctor’s prescription will be needed to obtain the medicine, GPO chief Dr Withit Utthawetchakul said yesterday, adding that the organisation was producing the medicine in a bid to stamp out fakes and it did not aim to earn any profit from sales of the drug.
The GPO has a new Bt950-million factory in Pathum Thani’s Rangsit Klong 10 area. It has the capacity to make up to 3.8 billion tablets a year and will start producing antibiotics next month.
The GPO’s old factory in the Rama VI area, with capacity for 4 billion tablets a year, will be upgraded at a cost of Bt190 million to boost its capacity five- or sixfold. It will be used mostly for production of anti-retroviral drugs for sale to Asean countries.
