Zhong Nanshan on Sanofi kickback: serious situation of some state-owned pharmaceutical companies

Bacon revealed that French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi bribed Chinese doctors and 16 hospitals in Guangdong were involved The Department of health of Guangdong Province urgently convened 16 hospital leaders to hold a meeting to deploy investigation and handling (see the report of Yangcheng Evening News on October 10 for details) In this regard, the reporter interviewed Zhong Nanshan, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering Yangcheng Evening News: why do pharmaceutical companies promote drugs? Zhong Nanshan: there is nothing wrong with drug promotion "Medicine" focuses on the study of the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment strategy and prevention of the disease itself, while "medicine" focuses on the study of drugs that block and control the pathogenesis But it's important to know how to promote drugs If Sanofi event is really for promotion, it's totally wrong to let doctors sell as much as they want and then give kickbacks This kind of promotion means also violates the rules of foreign pharmaceutical companies, and let doctors give kickbacks to them after selling as much as they want This is a typical bribe There's nothing to say about its nature I have no reservation against it Yangcheng Evening News: what is the root cause of doctors' kickbacks? Zhong Nanshan: it has something to do with the medical mechanism, but I want to say that the pursuit of profits in this market system affects doctors, which is the most fundamental Secondly, because the income of domestic doctors is relatively less than that of foreign doctors, but the labor paid is very high, but I want to emphasize that this is not the main thing, but the quality of doctors Some people eat kickbacks, some don't, and most don't Yangcheng Evening News: whose interests have been harmed by kickbacks? Is the patient a direct victim? Zhong Nanshan: anbono and anbowei are not fake medicine or inferior medicine Anbowei is indeed a good medicine, but it is not proper to promote it in this way If the patient has indications to take this medicine, it must be a good thing But if we try our best to promote it, we will overuse it If we overuse it, it will certainly be harmful to patients The use of promotion means to let doctors use this medicine, do not use other drugs, there is an indication of expansion, which is certainly harmful to patients Yangcheng Evening News: do state-owned pharmaceutical companies have the same situation as Sanofi? Zhong Nanshan: some state-owned enterprises exist, and the situation is very serious I emphasize that "some", not all The less formal state-owned enterprises are, the more poor their quality is Yangcheng Evening News: what's the best way to prevent doctors from taking kickbacks? Zhong Nanshan: I think we should start from two aspects One is to punish resolutely, which I absolutely support In addition, punishment alone is not enough Now, some self-discipline standards have been formulated for drugs and pharmaceutical factories, but doctors have no self-discipline standards in this respect What I know is that the liver disease association has formulated norms for the relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical enterprises and a meeting system In other societies, there are few, and discipline alone is not enough for doctors Beijing began to investigate the Sanofi incident According to the Xinhua News Agency's report on "some hospitals in Beijing accept research funds from Sanofi, a pharmaceutical giant", the reporter learned that a joint investigation team has been set up in Beijing to investigate the incident Recently, media reported that Sanofi, a pharmaceutical giant, has "provided research funds" to a number of hospitals and doctors in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places, which has attracted wide attention from all walks of life Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said it was concerned about the matter and would cooperate with discipline inspection and other departments to carry out investigation Beijing Municipal Bureau of health also said that the medical industry has already explicitly prohibited accepting various forms of commercial bribery Any report of commercial bribery with evidence will not be tolerated, and illegal personnel will be investigated and punished according to laws and regulations.