DOH, PRC form joint committee to investigate alleged pharma pyramid scheme

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The committee will also tap the Philippine Medical Association and the Philippine Pharmacists Association to investigate unethical practice

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The JCI involves the DOH’s Public Health Ethics Committee, the Food and Drug Administration , as well as the PRC. The health department plans to involve the Securities and Exchange Commission to also help with the investigation. The committee will also tap the Philippine Medical Association and the Philippine Pharmacists Association to investigate alleged unethical practice.

However, its chief executive officer Luis Raymond Go admitted that the company gives incentives such as support for medical conferences here and overseas to their shareholder doctors, on top of clinic equipment, trips abroad, and watches to doctors in exchange for including their brand in medical prescriptions.

 

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