In a move aimed at controlling the \u201cmarketing propaganda\u201d of pharmaceutical products inside health facilities and the resulting \u201copportunistic\u201d suspicions, health sources said the Ministry of Health is \u201cstudying a regulatory mechanism for the visits of representatives of pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies to health facilities, after monitoring the negative effects,\u201d which the ministry termed \u2018irregular\u2019 and an obstructs the workflow during official working hours,\u201d noting that the new mechanism takes into account the rights of patients on the one hand, and the work of doctors in a comfortable atmosphere on the other hand. <\/p>\n
A local Arabic daily said one of the most important items in the proposed mechanism is preventing delegates\u2019 visits during official working hours, regulating the number of visits by representatives of each company, and obtaining a prior appointment from the heads or managers of health facilities, to regulate visits during working hours, in a manner that does not confuse or disrupt patients\u2019 appointments.\u201d <\/p>\n
And among the items, \u201csetting a day on which the head of the department will meet in the presence of some doctors, whose time permits after the end of working hours, with company representatives, after obtaining prior approvals from the health facilities management and coordinating with the heads of departments in this regard.\u201d <\/p>\n
The sources stressed that \u201cthe regulatory mechanism aims primarily to eliminate the negatives that these visits may cause,\u201d stressing that \u201cits application has become necessary in light of the increasing number of visits by company representatives, to prevent any impact on doctors\u2019 decisions when prescribing treatments, and to address any suspicions of utilitarianism that may arise.\u201d <\/p>\n
This comes as Western reports indicate the negative impact of some pharmaceutical companies and the \u201cgifts\u201d they provide to some doctors (such as in-kind gifts, facilities, or recreational trips in the form of scientific conferences or others), including a study prepared by researchers at the University Hospital in Rennes, France, which concluded that physicians who receive gifts from drug makers tend to prescribe “more expensive and lower quality” drugs than their colleagues prescribe them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a move aimed at controlling the \u201cmarketing propaganda\u201d of pharmaceutical products inside health facilities and the resulting \u201copportunistic\u201d suspicions, health sources said the Ministry of Health is \u201cstudying a regulatory mechanism for the visits of representatives of pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies to health facilities, after monitoring the negative effects,\u201d which the ministry termed \u2018irregular\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":100644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n