DAP Sabah demanded Health
Ministry and Finance Ministry to explain to public why public hospitals could
not purchase medicines directly from manufacturers.
Junz Wong DAP Sabah State
Assistant Secretary said this middlemen system practiced by the Ministries for
drugs procurements has denied Rakyat their rights to enjoy affordable medicine
and treatments.
"Not only there is this
middlemen system, what makes it even worse is that the medicinal products
purchased under the system are not brought via an open tender which may have
led to the ministry paying as high as 15% above the market prices for the
drugs." Junz claimed
As a result of procuring
medicines through these middlemen, was more costly medicines and less
efficiency in delivery. There were also claims that this middlemen policy had
prevented the industry and its potentials from growing and skewed the local
market.
Junz demanded Health
Ministers to come clean with this issue as public interests were at stake. People
have the rights to know. Junz concluded.
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