When fake milk leaks through bidding, are hospitals also victims?

Accomplice or victim?

Mr. Duy Nguyen expressed: "Only those who have children feel indignant, the disadvantaged here are newborn babies and sick people. The hospital and the contractor and bid evaluation unit must take responsibility for this. It is not possible that the bid evaluation score sheet does not include criteria on origin and types of certificates and quality inspections."

Nguyen Viet Trung said: "It's really sad that from hospitals in big cities to provincial hospitals, fake milk is allowed to 'pass' bids. Are there statistics on how many patients have used this fake milk and how harmful it is to their health?"

Reader Thanh Huong asked: Is the hospital accomplice or a victim?

Mr. Pham Van Hoc - Chairman of Hung Vuong General Hospital (Phu Tho) said that in this case of discovering a fake milk line, from famous people, advertising doctors to hospitals, medical consultants, and milk users are all victims.

Hospitals that give patients fake milk cannot determine whether it is genuine or not because they believe in the circulation license and legal products sold on the market. However, if a doctor prescribes and asks the patient to buy milk, it is wrong. According to regulations, doctors only prescribe medicine, with functional foods, they stop at advising whether or not to use it.

Mr. Hoc added that in situations such as brain surgery, major surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, patients need to use high-energy products. At that time, the doctor will evaluate which type of milk is suitable and meets the standards for the patient to use.

Milk products of the company in the fake milk production line are sold at the pharmacy at Bac Kan Provincial General Hospital.

“I don’t know if the licensing agency has taken samples for post-inspection testing in the past four years. We need fairness, whoever is at fault will be punished accordingly, the hospital or the doctor are just victims,” Mr. Hoc said.

Regarding the hidden benefits behind the fake milk boxes reaching patients, Mr. Hoc said there are none. However, to limit risks, hospitals should only sell milk in the canteen, and customers can choose and buy it themselves.

A director of a central hospital in Hanoi also shared that neither medical staff nor patients have the ability to detect fake milk or fake medicine, that is the responsibility of the authorities. Regarding the issue of medical staff advising on milk, if it is a good nutritional product for patients, it will bring certain value. However, this advice becomes a "big deal" when the product is later determined to be fake. The products all have full documents, so the hospital cannot control them.

Avoid 3 coins for medicine, 7 coins for functional foods

Associate Professor Dao Xuan Co, Director of Bach Mai Hospital, said that the hospital strictly controls input right from the start. All drugs brought into the hospital must go through a strict bidding process, have legal documents and clear origins.

Mr. Co said that functional foods are not without value, but if not strictly controlled, abuse can cause patients to take risks and incur unnecessary costs.

Therefore, it is necessary to tighten the prescribing activities of functional foods to avoid cases where patients spend 3 dong on medicine and 7 dong on functional foods with unknown effectiveness.

Bach Mai Hospital has completely stopped selling functional foods at pharmacies for 3 years now. At the same time, it strictly prohibits all forms of prescription or consultation on the use of functional foods, even indirectly outside the hospital.

To date, Bach Mai Hospital has not detected any cases of counterfeit drugs or fake milk entering the in-hospital treatment system. However, the hospital has proactively reviewed the entire supply chain and in-hospital pharmacies to ensure absolute safety for patients, and at the same time called on people to proactively report to promptly prevent risks.

According to vietnamnet.vn

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