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Abnormal practice of relationship between manufacturers of medicines and some part of medical community has become usual in Russia - Putin В России сложилась ненормальная практика взаимоотношений между производителями лекарств и частью врачебного сообщества - Путин
IFX-News 2009 Oct 9
http://www.finmarket.ru/z/nws/news.asp?id=1304854


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The Prime-minister Vladimir Putin defined the situation when pharmaceutical
giants pay health professionals for prescribing their medicines impossible
to tolerate.
At the meeting on development of pharmaceutical industry he noted, that
“sometimes even the prescription forms, printed by supplier firms, are being
used”.
According to the Prime-minister, during the last decade “obviously abnormal
practice of relationship between manufacturers of medicines, including
foreign ones, and some part of medical community” has become usual in
Russia.

The Prime-minister noted that pharmaceutical companies have the right to
advertise their products, but they have to do this in a civilized way and be
fully compliant with universally recognized ethical norms and the Russian
legislation.

Vladimir Putin also emphasized that pharmaceutical manufacturers “provide
sponsorship for corporate events, various seminars, including overseas
seminars with trips to warm seas”, which involve thousands of specialists.
“In fact the lobbying systems, disposed in depth, are being created or have
been already created to lobby for the interests of large-scale
pharmaceutical companies, and this vicious practice should to be stopped”, – the Prime-minister declared.
The head of the government thinks that not only legislative bans for such
incomes are needed, but also the introduction of tougher, stricter norms of
medical ethics is needed.

Furthermore, according to the prime-minister, “we should get rid of so
called pharmaceutical representatives, who work in health facilities”, and
“the expert committees on new medicines should not employ specialists who
accept monetary payments” from manufacturers of these medicines.

Премьер Владимир Путин назвал недопустимой
ситуацию, когда фармацевтические концерны доплачивают медицинским
специалистам за то, что они выписывают пациентам производимые этими
компаниями препараты. Причем, заметил он на совещании по развитию
фармацевтической промышленности, “иногда для этого используются даже бланки
рецептов, напечатанные фирмами-поставщиками”. По словам премьера, в
последнее десятилетие в России сложилась “явно ненормальная практика
взаимоотношений между производителями лекарств, в том числе иностранными, и
частью врачебного сообщества”. Как сказал глава правительства,
фармацевтические компании вправе рекламировать свою продукцию, но они должны
это делать цивилизованно и в полном соответствии с общепризнанными
этическими нормами, российским законодательством. В.Путин также подчеркнул,
что производители лекарств “спонсируют корпоративные мероприятия, разного
рода семинары, в том числе с выездом на теплые моря”, которые охватывают
тысячи специалистов. “По сути, создаются или уже созданы глубоко
эшелонированные системы лоббирования интересов крупных фармацевтических
компаний, и эту порочную практику нужно прекратить”, – заявил премьер. Глава
правительства считает, что необходимы не только законодательные запреты на
подобного рода доходы, но и введение более жестких норм врачебной этики.
Кроме того, по его словам, “следует избавиться от так называемых
фармпредставителей, работающих в медучреждениях”, а “в экспертных советах по
новым лекарствам не должны работать специалисты, которые получают денежное
вознаграждение” от производителей этих лекарств.

 

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A small group known as Healthy Skepticism; formerly the Medical Lobby for Appropriate Marketing) has consistently and insistently drawn the attention of producers to promotional malpractice, calling for (and often securing) correction. These organisations [Healthy Skepticism, Médecins Sans Frontières and Health Action International] are small, but they are capable; they bear malice towards no one, and they are inscrutably honest. If industry is indeed persuaded to face up to its social responsibilities in the coming years it may well be because of these associations and others like them.
- Dukes MN. Accountability of the pharmaceutical industry. Lancet. 2002 Nov 23; 360(9346)1682-4.