The government responded that it would seek ways to ease the public burden in response to the request that shingles vaccines should be included in Korea’s National Immunization Program (NIP).

Rep Young-Joo Kim of the Democratic Party of Korea pointed at the audit of the NA Health and Welfare Committee that was held on the 25th. She said, “There are medical institutions that charge up to KRW 400,000 for shingles prevention vaccine, whose supply price starts at KRW 8,400. In addition to adding the vaccines to NIP, we need to take measures such as a price disclosure system for suppliers.”

According to the data Rep Kim received from the KDCA and HIRA, the average price of Zostavax Inj in