Fake cancer drugs sold openly in front of K Hospital gate

Fake cancer drugs are brazenly sold to patients by pharmacies right at the gate of K Hospital without a doctor's prescription.

At the gate of K Hospital - Tan Trieu facility (Hanoi), dozens of pharmacies have sprung up here, comfortably meeting the needs of all kinds of cancer treatment drugs for patients in the hospital. Even drugs that are not allowed to be sold in Vietnam such as Vidatox 30 CH. No doctor's prescription is required, as long as the customer has money, the staff will have the medicine.

Not sold in stores like regular drugs, Vidatox 30CH is hidden in another location. Employees use phones combined with cameras to connect directly to the location where the drugs are hidden to direct customers to get the goods.

Staff direct via camera where the medicine is "hidden" to get the goods for the customer.

To create trust and prolong business time, medicine boxes advertised as imported directly from Cuba are printed with very different information about expiration dates, commonly 5 years, with some boxes up to ten years.

However, according to the manufacturer's information and medical documents, each bottle of medicine like this can only be used for 30 months (about 2 and a half years), after which time the blue scorpion venom in the medicine will lose its effect.

Vidatox CH30 has a shelf life of 10 years.

At another pharmacy, the pharmacist did not even know how to read the batch number and production date printed on the packaging of the counterfeit medicine box, not to mention basic knowledge about the expiration date.

Discussing the current situation of fake drugs being sold everywhere at the gate of K Hospital, the Head of the Pain Management Department (K Hospital) affirmed that the drug Vidatox 30CH is not allowed to be used in hospitals or sold in pharmacies.

A random survey of 4 pharmacies out of many pharmacies in front of the K Hospital (Tan Trieu) showed that all 4 pharmacies sold Vidatox 30 CH. This is a drug that has not been licensed by the Ministry of Health for use in cancer treatment in Vietnam.

However, with the selling price being 2 - 3 million VND cheaper than the market price, every day there are still many patients buying medicine from these stores and not knowing that the medicine does not have the effect of supporting cancer treatment as advertised.

According to Danviet