{"id":226538,"date":"2019-08-12T06:04:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T10:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=226538"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:19:52","slug":"probe-sought-on-ph-having-highest-incidence-of-fake-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/12\/probe-sought-on-ph-having-highest-incidence-of-fake-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe sought on PH having \u2018highest incidence\u2019 of fake drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On top of this is the reported market penetration of locally-manufactured counterfeit over-the-counter medicines, Recto said.<\/p>\n
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MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has formally asked for a Senate probe on the \u201cpresence and prevalence\u201d of counterfeit drugs in the Philippines, after a United Nations agency tagged the country as having the \u201chighest incidence\u201d of fake medicines in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n

In a Senate resolution, Recto said the country is \u201cbeing depicted as a hotspot for knockoff drugs\u201d in the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2019 report on \u201cTransnational Organized Crime in Southeast Asia: Evolution, Growth and Impact\u201d and it is a cause for \u201calarm and action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citing UNODC\u2019s findings, Recto said that from 2014 to 2017, fake medicines, mostly from Pakistan, India and China, reportedly entered the Philippines through an illicit trade network.<\/p>\n

On top of this is the reported market penetration of locally-manufactured counterfeit over-the-counter medicines, Recto said.<\/p>\n

Recto said the government should unmask which of \u201cthese misbranded, spurious, fake, and falsely-labeled drugs\u201d have entered the market and have duped Filipinos.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2018, no less than President (Rodrigo) Duterte described the availability of counterfeited paracetamol brands in the country as a growing threat and ordered the arrest of their makers and sellers,\u201d Recto said in his resolution.<\/p>\n

He said if reports are true that fake medicines are being sold for lower prices at sari-sari stores, \u201cthen they are victimizing the poor who often have to borrow money to buy medicines or cost-cut by buying doses lower than what the doctor has prescribed.<\/p>\n

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Recto said the trade in fake medicines is \u201ca large scale swindle of the cruelest kind,\u201d as their victims are of the illusion that they are taking authentic medicines that will cure them \u201cand not something made of flour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi lahat ng drug dealers shabu ang ibinibenta. Ang iba, pekeng gamot sa<\/em>\u00a0infection, rabies, TB, cancer,\u00a0ubo at lagnat ang inilalako<\/em>\u00a0(Not all drug dealers sell shabu. Others offer fake medicines for infection, rabies, TB, cancer, cough and fever),\u201d Recto said.<\/p>\n

Recto said the staggering amount of money Filipinos spend yearly for medicines and pharmaceutical preparations should prod the government to protect their health, safety, and money.<\/p>\n

About PHP187 billion, or half of the PHP372.8 billion \u201cout-of-pocket\u201d health expenditures of Filipino families in 2017 went to pharmacies.<\/p>\n

\u201cHouseholds buy half a billion pesos worth of drugs a day.\u00a0Hindi pa kasama ang binibili ng mga pribadong ospital, gobyerno at<\/em>\u00a0insurance companies\u00a0na nasa bilyun-bilyong piso din ang halaga taun-taon<\/em>\u00a0(This does not include drugs worth billions of pesos being bought by private hospitals, government and insurance companies every year),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Recto said the Senate investigation’s aim \u201cis to know the gravity of the problem and formulate remedial measures that will strengthen the capacity of the Food and Drug Administration and all law enforcement agencies to defeat this problem.<\/p>\n

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