Abnormal practice of relationship between manufacturers of medicines and some part of medical community has become usual in Russia. - Putin

12/10/2009 by admin.

The Prime-minister Vladimir Putin defined the situation when pharmaceutical giants pay health professionals for prescribing their medicines impossible to tolerate. At the meeting on development of pharmaceutical industry he noted, that “sometimes even the prescription forms, printed by supplier firms, are being used”. According to the Prime-minister, during the last decade “obviously abnormal practice of relationship between manufacturers of medicines, including foreign ones, and some part of medical community” has become usual in Russia. The Prime-minister noted that pharmaceutical companies have the right to advertise their products, but they have to do this in a civilized way and be fully compliant with universally recognized ethical norms and the Russian legislation. Vladimir Putin also emphasized that pharmaceutical manufacturers “provide sponsorship for corporate events, various seminars, including overseas seminars with trips to warm seas”, which involve thousands of specialists. “In fact the lobbying systems, disposed in depth, are being created or have been already created to lobby for the interests of large-scale pharmaceutical companies, and this vicious practice should to be stopped”, - the Prime-minister declared. The head of the government thinks that not only legislative bans for such incomes are needed, but also the introduction of tougher, stricter norms of medical ethics is needed. Furthermore, according to the prime-minister, “we should get rid of so called pharmaceutical representatives, who work in health facilities”, and “the expert committees on new medicines should not employ specialists who accept monetary payments” from manufacturers of these medicines.

9/10/09

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