Expensive Medicines : Ripping Off The People

By Our Editorial Consultant

There is a company that imports medicines from India and sells it to Government hospitals.  India is now a major pharmaceutical power in the world and it manufactures high quality drugs but very cheaply.  

This particular company buys the drugs in India at a cost of about RM10.00 per pack.  They say that if they can sell their imported medicine directly to the Government hospitals, they will charge the Government about RM15.00 per pack - which means they slap on a 50% mark-up to cover transportation, expenses and of course some profit for them.  

But the drug is actually sold to the Government hospitals for RM45.

Here is how it happens.  The importing company cannot sell the drugs directly to the Government.  

They must go through P***niaga which we all know is a Dumbno company.  

Its Directors include U*M boss, A---d P----s S--in, failed outsourcing guru Azman Y---a and Dumbno henchman Raja N--g C--k.  But even here the company cannot sell the drugs directly to P----niaga at RM15.

They first have to sell their drugs to yet another crony company which is "connected" to P----niaga.  So the crony intermediary buys the drugs first at RM15.00 and then sells it to P----niaga at a mark up of say RM30.00.  

This is how cronies do business.  It’s called "rent-seeking", no need to sweat or take risks, just collect, collect, collect!  They pretend that this is NEP.  

The interesting thing is this is just a paper transaction.  They may not even take physical possession of the drugs.  They may just tell the importing company to deliver the drugs directly to P-----niaga.  They just bill P----niaga and cream off the difference.

Now kawan-kawan, this has been going on for donkey years since P-----niaga was set up in the 1990s.  Then P-----niaga finally sells the drug to the Government hospitals for RM45.00 a pack.  And who pays for all this creaming off?  

It is you and me, Encik Taxpayer and the ordinary folks.  Who are the suckers?  Haramkah duit ini?  It's called STEALING from the RAKYAT and this is just ONE example of their normal rasuah Dumbno's business deal.  

This is now otherwise known as GOVERNMENT’s STEALING TECHNIQUE.

   

And to add salt to the wound; the generic version is sold to the government at a cost more expensive than the original !  

For example Rocephine for meningitis.  Happened when I was in the government.  

Sent big protest letter as I didn’t want to take risks with patients' lives in serious infections like this.  

Reply was : inform if any adverse reactions occur with the generic drug. 

I replied -  death.   

My comments :   Quite self explanatory.  There is an interesting history to this news above.  I am glad to note that others have been thinking about this issue as well.