On April 16, information from Thanh Hoa Provincial Police said that they had just dismantled a very large-scale ring of fake new drug production and trading, arresting 14 subjects.
This line operates in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces of Vinh Phuc, Hung Yen, An Giang, Dong Thap.
According to the initial investigation, this fake drug production gang ordered ingredients such as pharmaceuticals, medicinal herbs, and herbs of unknown origin, hired workers to mix and form powder, used machines to make bags, squeeze, and package finished products to sell to the market through distribution channels.
New drug is made by hand, "dissolved, gradually screened", without any basis for quality or quantity. It is too disregardful for the health and lives of others.
New drug is being sold to treat diseases of bones and joints, nasal congestion, with foreign drug names such as Tui Hua Shen Jing Tong, Mujarhabat Kapsul... to deceive patients.
With the name of the foreign drug, if asked, the answer is "hand-carried". My people prefer foreign goods, trust in the quality of Singapore and Malaysia's drugs, so it is easy to fall into the trap.
From 2021 until his arrest, the fake drug production gang has launched a huge quantity of fake drugs on the market, with an estimated illegal profit of nearly 200 billion VND. Thus, there have been many patients who are victims of them.
The urgent thing to do with the authorities and health agencies is to announce the list of drugs produced by this gang and launch them on the market. People know that these drugs are fake to avoid being scammed out of buying them, while those who have bought them do not use them.
Next is to immediately recall fake drugs that have been sold on the market, search for fake drugs in distribution channels, drug markets, and even pharmacies.
All individuals involved in the production and sale of new drugs of this line must be handled according to the provisions of law. Producing and trading counterfeit drugs is a crime, and at the end of the day, it is an indirect act of murder.
Because patients who take fake medicine lose money and get sick, lose the golden opportunity to cure their illness, and the disease can get worse.
In fake drugs, there are many chemicals that can harm human health, not to mention that they can cause death.
