00:00Let us say a woman wanted a vitamin registered by a particular company in 30s and 60s.
00:08And this same product manufactured by the same company in America in a pack size of 300 to make it more affordable for the public
00:17is considered to be unregistered because it is a 300 count and not a 30 count.
00:22Now, this, in our opinion, is clear on fair trade practices to facilitate some companies.
00:30He says under the previous government, there was no equality.
00:35Suchit says while the products were safe, they were classified as unregistered and that posed a problem
00:41and efforts to change that was stymied by the former health minister.
00:46Additionally, Mr Suchit, who is also a pharmacist, tells us of doctors who are exploiting their positions.
00:52We have a lot of doctors now who are running pharmacies in their practices.
00:57This is illegal. Doctors are supposed to diagnose, recommend, write a script and send them off.
01:03He further tells us that some companies are driving their prices too high for medications and supplies.
01:11He says there must be mechanisms in place to regulate these exorbitant prices.
01:17When things are slow and they can't sell their product, they come to the pharmacies and offer in 20, 30, 40 percent discount.
01:22When you do bulk buying, right, so that is a clear indication that the percentages that they use
01:28are very high in some instances and can fluctuate between 30 to 80, 100, 200 percent.
01:36It's like car parts.
01:37Yeah.
01:38Right, so there's no control and these are one of the issues that we would like to bring to the minister's attention.
01:44Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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