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Joint team to remove fake vaccines from market
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A medicine vendor waits for customers at Pramuka Market on June 27. National Police investigators are continuing to examine a recent case of the distribution of fake vaccines. (Antara/Sigid Kurniawan)
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joint team plans to carry out operations to remove counterfeit vaccines from drug stores, hospitals and healthcare centers across the country, following public complaints that fakes can still be found in many stores, a police officer has said.
The government has set up a joint team to address the distribution of fake vaccines that was highlighted in the media late last month. The members of the team come from the National Police, the Health Ministry and the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM).
The other role of the joint team is to ensure that fake products will no longer be distributed to the market, National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said at the police headquarters in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Investigators from the National Police have been working with 12 hospitals in Jakarta, Banten, North Sumatra, Central Java, Aceh and West Java that they found had received fake products.
The police have arrested 18 suspects and have questioned 29 people, Boy said.
Another police spokesman, Brig. Gen. Agus Rianto, said the police would not disclose the names of hospitals that allegedly received the fake vaccines so that they would continue to cooperate with investigators in the case.
“We’re looking for the real suspects that must be responsible for the matter; we’re currently studying it and we will step up the working unit’s role,” Agus said. (bbn)
