Prosecutor General: Businessmen pay doctors money to prescribe unnecessary medicines to patients

Today, December 25, a regular meeting of the republican interagency anti-corruption commission was held in Tashkent, Kun.uz correspondent reports.

During the event, Prosecutor General Nigmatilla Yuldashev delivered a speech.

“I will tell you the bitter truth. Some doctors, when prescribing medicines or referring a patient for examination, instead of giving an objective recommendation, do a kind of business. We are receiving reports that entrepreneurs pay money to doctors to prescribe such medicines as Fairx, Elevit, Vitrum, Azimak, Actovegin and Flunol to patients. The most dangerous thing is that for a certain proportion, doctors prescribe medications that patients do not need. At the same time, the Ministry of Health does not carry out any preventive work,” the head of the supervisory body said.

Nigmatilla Yuldashev emphasized that instead of selling various medicines that are produced in foreign countries, physicians should take care of the health of the population.

“Do not turn Uzbekistan into a market for foreign drugs. It is important to maintain public health. When will specialists in this field understand this?” he noted.

It also became known that in two years in Uzbekistan, 581 employees of the healthcare system were prosecuted.