Excellent effort of Brazilian Government - Distributing medicines free of cost

Brazil is providing free medicines to every citizen suffering from Diabetes and High blood pressures.

The medicines will be given out by the countrywide set up of finances pharmacies, where many medicines have already been given on a huge subsidized price. The step is the part of her movement to alleviate poverty in Brazil, said Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. At least 33 million Brazilians have high blood pressure and more than seven million have diabetes.

The free medicines will be given to all those Brazilians who have a doctor's prescription, but the authorities say main focus is to prove free medicine to the poor peoples who use the public health system. The medicine will be given out through 15,000 famous Pharmacies chemist shops network, where mostly drugs are already being sold at a 90% discount. Alexandre Padilha, Brazilian Health Minister said, these two dangerous diseases have become a major cause of 34% death tools in Brazil in 2009. The President told that poorest parts of Brazilian society spend approximately 12% of their revenues on drugs.

In 1996 the Brazilian government had distributed free anti-retroviral drugs to the patients of HIV/AIDS, the beneficial step was highly appreciated by the international community.

Dilma Rousseff, who took the oath as a President on 1 January, has assured to enhance financial support to the Brazil's public health network.