Public Health Ministry to look into kickback allegations in hospitals

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Public Health Ministry to look into kickback allegations in hospitals

 

 

Thailand’s public health minister has promised to look into allegations that many of the Ministry’s 186 hospitals have received kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for buying their products.

 

Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said Wednesday that he will order a formal investigation, if there is substance to the allegations which, he admitted, have tarnished the reputation of the Ministry.

 

The allegation has pitted Public Health Permanent Secretary Dr. Sukhum Kanchanapimai against the director of Khon Kaen provincial hospital, Dr. Charnchai Chanworachaikul, who was recently transferred to assist with work at the Ministry, by Dr. Sukhum, who appointed Dr. Kriangsak Watcharanukulkiat, director of Phra Pokklao Hospital in Chanthaburi province, to succeed Dr. Charnchai.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/public-health-ministry-to-look-into-kickback-allegations-in-hospitals/

 

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[Borzandy]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

if there is substance to the allegations which, he admitted, have tarnished the reputation of the Ministry

I'm absolutely sure no one has tarnished the reputation of the Ministry.

[DPKANKAN]

38 minutes ago, Borzandy said:

I'm absolutely sure no one has tarnished the reputation of the Ministry.

Try starting at the top!!!????????????????????????????????

[Puchaiyank]

Kickbacks from pharmaceutical products is likely just the tip of the iceberg!

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said Wednesday that he will order a formal investigation, if there is substance to the allegations which, he admitted, have tarnished the reputation of the Ministry.

It might be less work to establish where kick-backs are NOT made.... it could be done in one day.

[Bender Rodriguez]

they should invent new words as kickbacks & corruptions sounds so...

 

let's call it education sponsorship for new more expensive, possibly dangerous medicines for the sheeple that swallow everything the MD prescribes

 

a bag of pills a day, keeps the doctor happy & paid

[AhFarangJa]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s public health minister has promised to look into allegations that many of the Ministry’s 186 hospitals have received kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for buying their products.

May I complete the paragraph please............"because he has not received his percentages yet"

[thequietman]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s public health minister has promised to look into allegations that many of the Ministry’s 186 hospitals have received kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for buying their products.

Work has already begun in earnest. They will get to the bottom of this. ????

[Scott Tracy]

As requested, corruption has been renamed as 'facilitation of business processes'. Kickbacks have been renamed 'lubrication'.