China Youth Daily: Director of public corruption

in the Department of Pharmacy,

the cost-sharing

China Youth Daily 

  
  

  
     Against a storm, so that all nine of Zhuhai City, Director of Public Hospital Pharmacy is the prototype. Zhuhai City Procuratorate recently informed, Zhuhai 9 Chief Public Hospital Pharmacy (Officer), on suspicion of accepting on behalf of pharmaceutical and medical suppliers of commercial bribery was "pot-side." The move generated a cascade effect, it is a large medical institutions in Zhuhai City, irrational drug use prescription and convergence, Doumen District, only to decline in the value of the average outpatient prescription 14.36 yuan, to ease the burden of medical expenses of more than 140 million. ("Guangzhou Daily" Dec. 16)

     Director of the city's Department of Pharmacy, all public hospitals are "side pot", the "significant" anti-corruption results and can not make people feel relaxed. On the contrary, this event revealed corruption in medicine procurement, the public can not help but feel the heavy speculation is verified. These large hospitals, public hospitals, the responsible person is a silver bullet, without exception, down, right view that the spread of corruption in medicine nowadays extent of deep and broad. Moreover, such a phenomenon of corruption on the price, the daily mean people receiving medical care prices also include the cost of these corrupt officials? In other words, the public is in fact sharing the cost of Pharmacy Director of corruption?

      Previously, the Beijing Xicheng Procuratorate research shows that from 2006 to 2009, prosecutors in Beijing were registered and the field of medical and health investigation of corruption and bribery cases involving 82 people, including the hospital in the procurement of medicines, medical equipment and medical supplies process, taking bribes Up to 62 the number of people ("Beijing Daily" Oct. 26). That is, in drugs, corruption in procurement of equipment a lot. Corruption is no longer a medical buying and selling so-called "hidden rules", but has become a relatively common phenomenon. 

    The prevalence of corruption, buying and selling the one hand, a number similar to the Pharmacy Director fatten rapidly that are associated with the purchase of special medical groups, making them the interests of commercial transactions, the direct beneficiaries of the transfer. On the other hand, high to go higher purchase price, must transfer to the consumer end, people have to directly push up the prices of medical services received, thereby aggravating the already existing "medical treatment is difficult and expensive" phenomenon, making the part of the benefit Corruption costs to the group head of the general public.

     Relying on the so-called self-management of hospitals, doctors self-discipline, obviously not really eliminate corruption. Hospital leadership and responsibility in charge of procurement staff why the manufacturers or pharmaceutical representatives easily get? Is in fact very simple, not the moral quality of leadership and staff, but hard, nor is it these people do not know the severe penalties associated with the provisions of the hospital, but not "medical representative" seduce, lure irresistible. Lies in purchasing power is too centralized, closed, opaque, the lack of external supervision. Within the chamber, Gongchoujiaocuo between purchasing just a few people put this thing buttoned up, no problem how?

      Zhuhai City, all public hospital pharmacy director of falling by the wayside, who also verify the public procurement process has long been there for medical Mao Erni's guess. This speculation can easily lead to negative social mood, so the public on the already difficult health care reform to promote feel doubts. The lack of public participation in health care reform, not meant to really be effective. In fact, the public interest against powerful interest groups often encountered, seems to have developed a practice. Its roots are not equal in the game, the monopoly of a key local health care resources in public hospitals will not only forcefully prevent the reforms to cure the interests of the people to amass wealth, exploit, and even the government's policy direction for further abductions.

      This incident also reminds government departments must strengthen supervision, in order to reduce the firm's anti-corruption public service prices. Specifically, is to change the current run of the pharmaceutical procurement mechanism closed, the medical institutions should accept social supervision in all directions, breaking the important positions that thousand years, self-contained arbitrary patterns. Over the years, people have assumed the cost of health care reform in many transition, not even the cost of Pharmacy Director of corruption has to be assessed.