The group of medicines and medical services increased sharply, greatly affecting the consumer price index in Hai Duong.

Medicines and medical services are among the eight commodity groups with the highest price increases in January (documentary photo)

Urban areas had lower price increases than rural areas (urban areas increased by 1.23%, rural areas increased by 1.41%).

The main reason for the above increase in CPI in January is due to the 17.33% increase in medical service prices; the 0.27% increase in medicine and medical equipment prices according to the instructions of the Ministry of Health (Circulars No. 21/2024/TT-BYT, 23/2024/TT-BYT) and the provincial regulations applied from January 1, 2025 (Resolution No. 115/NQ-HDND dated December 11, 2024 of the Provincial People's Council regulating the prices of medical examination and treatment services at state-owned medical examination and treatment facilities under the management authority of Hai Duong province).

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There were 8 groups of goods and services that increased in price and 2 groups that decreased in price, only the education group kept its price stable. Among the groups of goods that increased in price, there were some groups that increased a lot, greatly affecting the general CPI such as: the group of medicine and medical services increased by 13.31%; the group of transportation increased by 0.76%; the group of housing, electricity, water, fuel and construction materials increased by 0.22%; the group of household equipment and utensils increased by 0.19%...

On the contrary, prices of some items in January decreased slightly compared to the previous month such as: culture, entertainment and tourism group decreased by 0.1%; post and telecommunications group decreased by 0.06%.

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