According to what was pointed out by the Prosecutor’s Office, the evidence shows that expired, decomposed or discontinued medicines were brought into the country from Venezuela and Ecuador, in precarious conditions and without maintaining the cold chain.
A network dedicated to the falsification, alteration and commercialization of drugs to treat high-cost diseases was dismantled in Colombia. This was reported by the Prosecutor of that nation, Francisco Barbosa, on October 1.
Through a video broadcast on the account at Twitter of the Prosecutor’s Office, detailed that 14 people who would be part of the illegal network were captured in 22 search and raid procedures carried out by the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office in Bogotá, Cúcuta, Barranquilla and Soledad, Atlántico, Valledupar, Cesar and Ciénaga and Magdalena. He pointed out that opioids and other products that generate drowsiness, dependency and control the central nervous system were detected in this illegal distribution chain, which have restricted use and cannot be offered freely.
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According to what was stated by the Prosecutor’s Office, the evidence shows that expired, decomposed or discontinued medicines were entered the country from Venezuela and Ecuador, in precarious conditions and without maintaining the cold chain. Medicines that were for the exclusive use of the health system would have been extracted from EPS and delivered to the members of this organization, who sold them.
In the case of medicines for institutional use, the illegal group erased the expiration dates, records of manufacturing batches and the legend of institutional use. Thus, they passed them off as common medicines and sold them in drugstores or distributed them, on request, to different cities as dietary supplements and medicines to treat hemophilia, cancer, neurological or respiratory complications, among other diseases.
Prosecutors of the Thematic Axis of Intellectual Property charged the detainees with different crimes, depending on their participation, among them: conspiracy to commit a crime; corruption of food, medical products or prophylactic material, and illegal alienation of medicines, among others.
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