– 6 days in the past
MANILA, Philippines — At least the nation’s well being chief had no information of the alleged multi-level advertising and marketing (MLM) schemes within the medical trade till the problem was raised earlier than the Senate.
Dealing with the Senate probe on Tuesday, Division of Well being (DOH) Secretary Teodoro Herbosa mentioned he solely heard of a number of the perks that docs allegedly acquired from some pharmaceutical corporations however not about this MLM scheme.
“Ang alam ko journeys to international conferences, and possibly meals in costly eating places…” Herbosa mentioned, responding to Senator Raffy Tulfo’s queries throughout Tuesday’s Senate committee listening to on well being.
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(What I do know is journeys to international conferences and possibly meals in costly eating places…)
Exorbitant items
“However itong scheme whereby prescription is counted, and quota is made yung muti-level advertising and marketing, ngayon ko lang nalaman na might ganung multi-level advertising and marketing. At ngayon ko lang nalaman ganun ka exorbitant yung mga items…” the DOH chief mentioned.
(However this scheme whereby prescriptions are counted and quotas are made—I solely discovered about this multi-level advertising and marketing now. And I solely knew this now how exorbitant the items are…”
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Herbosa talked about the luxurious vehicles that erring docs supposedly acquired from an area drug distributor, later recognized within the information experiences as Bell-Kenz Pharma Inc., in trade for prescribing its model of medicines.
Pyramiding scheme
Later pursued by the panel head, Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, Herbosa repeated that he by no means heard of the scheme earlier than till he was requested about it within the earlier listening to of the committee and later acquired messages from social media about Bell-Kenz.
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Solely then did he say he began inquiring about this alleged MLM scheme?
“Nagtanong din ako sa mga kakilala at meron ding second hand info sila na totoo daw…” Herbosa mentioned.
(I additionally requested some acquaintances, they usually even have second-hand info that it’s true…”)
In the course of the listening to, bell-Kenz’s Chairperson and Chief Govt Officer, Luis Raymond Go, repeatedly denied that the corporate engaged in any MLM scheme.
“Bell-Kenz Pharma Inc. vehemently [denies] the misinformed and unfounded allegations leveled in opposition to our firm,” the corporate mentioned in a press release issued over the weekend.
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