On the evening of June 11, speaking with reporters, Associate Professor, Doctor, Doctor Hoang Quoc Cuong - Director of the Can Tho City Department of Health said that the Department of Health had received a complaint about "Signals of using counterfeit goods from the Director of Can Tho City Dermatology Hospital, Mr. Le Van Dat".
"The Can Tho City Department of Health is urgently handling the matter, and will soon have information to the press" - Mr. Cuong said.
On May 29, 2025, the Office of the People's Committee of Can Tho City issued a notice requesting the handling of a complaint related to this content. The Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City assigned the Director of the City Department of Health to organize the inspection according to authority and according to the provisions of law; report the implementation results to the Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City before June 15, 2025.
Previously, readers of Lao Dong newspaper questioned the origin of functional foods sold at Can Tho Dermatology Hospital. That is WHI BEAUTY SKIN health protection food, product registration number 3139/2023/DKSP, 3- type box.
Through the reporter's investigation, this product was announced by MEDISMART Company Limited (address: 73 Nguyen Van Giap, Binh Trung Dong Ward, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City); produced at DEISUTA JAPAN Pharmaceutical Joint Venture Joint Stock Company (address: TS21 Street, Tien Son Industrial Park, Dong Nguyen Ward, Tu Son City, Bac Ninh Province).
After that, MEDISMART Company Limited announced the conversion of WHI BEAUTY SKIN health protection food factory from DEISUTA JAPAN Pharmaceutical Joint Venture Joint Venture Joint Venture Joint Venture Company (address: TS21 Street, Tien Son Industrial Park, Dong Nguyen Ward, Tu Son City, Bac Ninh Province) to GOLDWIN International Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company (address: TK21 Street, Tien Son Industrial Park, Dong Nguyen Ward, Tu Son City, Bac Ninh Province).
However, the packaging of WHI BEAUTY SKIN products still has the old product registration number 3139/2023/DKSP issued to DEISUTA JAPAN Pharmaceutical Joint Venture Joint Stock Company.
Meanwhile, Decree 15/2018/ND-CP of the Government stipulates that in cases where health protection food products change their product names, starting materials, and structure, organizations and individuals must re-publish the products. After receiving valid documents and being approved by the Food Safety Department (Ministry of Health), the product will be granted a receipt number to register a new product declaration for production and business in accordance with regulations.
On the other hand, in October 2023, the press reported that Thanh Hoa Provincial Police arrested 4 suspects who are leaders and managers of GOLDWIN International Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company for the act of producing and trading fake and poor quality functional foods.
In another development, since June 3, the product was said to be out of stock by the pharmacy staff of Can Tho City Dermatology Hospital.
Currently, some patients have expressed concern about the reputation of Can Tho City Dermatology Hospital. Many people hope the incident will be clarified soon to feel secure in medical examination and treatment.
On June 6, the Can Tho Department of Health issued an official dispatch on reviewing the supply of drugs and medical equipment at hospitals.
The Department requires units to review the activities of purchasing and supplying drugs and medical equipment at hospitals and pharmacies in the hospital premises.
Along with that is strengthening the management of prescriptions and drug use at the unit; ensuring that drugs can only be prescribed after having results of medical examination, diagnosis, prescription of drugs in accordance with disease diagnosis and severity, must achieve safety, reasonable and effective goals.
For the Hospital's Drug and Treatment Council, seriously implement the hospital's hospital-based medicine and medical records to ensure good implementation of national policies on drugs in hospitals.
Previously, on June 4, the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management, Ministry of Health issued Official Letter No. 810/KCB-NV on reviewing the supply of drugs and medical equipment at hospitals.
This is an activity to carry out tasks assigned by the Ministry of Health's leaders regarding the assignment of tasks to members of the Ministry of Health's working group on the peak period of fighting, preventing and repelling crimes of smuggling, trade fraud, and counterfeit goods in the health sector.
