The Green Party plans to table an amendment to the Therapeutic Products Bill to ban advertising for prescription medicines.

New Zealand and the United States are the only two countries that allow unrestricted advertising of branded prescription medication.

Green Party health spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March says pharmaceutical advertisements do not equip the public with the information that they need.

"The medical professionals themselves are making a call for us to put an end to this type of advertisements, because all it does is clog up our healthcare system- and most countries have acknowledged it does not lead to better outcomes."  

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