Gov't to curb corruption in medical procurement

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Anyone who violates the law must be dealt with and punished, said Minister of Health Chen Zhu at a national conference on pharmaceutical⁶ procurement held in Beijing.

Online procurement will be widely adopted at the provincial level, said the minister, adding that he hopes online purchases will help ensure quality, bring prices down, regulate the sector⁷ and curb illegal activity.

Chen called for tougher scrutiny⁸ and stricter control over pharmaceutical purchases, as well as urged efforts to set up a system that will prevent hospitals from profiting from medication sales in order to deter⁹ excessive prescriptions¹⁰. ' Domestic hospitals and clinics make significant profits by selling pharmaceuticals¹¹ at high prices. Doctors have been known to prescribe expensive drugs in order to get kickbacks¹² from manufacturers, increasing financial burdens for patients and causing confrontations¹³ between hospital staff and patients.

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