Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Dec 2019
Soaring medication prices in remote Australian chemists have families going online
19 December 2019 - Residents living in outback Australia are paying more for some common medications than people living in metropolitan areas, which is driving families to boycott their local chemists and buy online.
Sara Coughlin is a mother of four living in Mount Isa, in north-west Queensland, who noticed the price difference when her daughter fell ill with an ear infection.
"I went to one of the local chemists in town, gave them a script, [and] I was pretty shocked when I found out how much it was," Ms Coughlin said.
