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View all search resultsThe National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) has officially re-submitted its case dossier on the distribution of fake vaccines to the Attorney General’s Office (AGO). Two earlier dossiers were rejected due to incomplete documentation.
The government must issue a presidential regulation to expand the authority of the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) to include monitoring and launching raids on private medical facilities, a lawmaker has argued.
Throughout this case, I wanted to answer a question: Why has this tragedy occurred while the words “hospital” and “hospitality” come from the same root-word hospes (Latin), meaning guest? I answer this question by saying that these fake vaccines suggest that hospitals in Indonesia tend to overlook the role of medicine as a form of social hospitality, or as a charitable work.
Over the past year, we have seen two cases in which patients have fallen victim to low-quality anesthetics they received while undergoing hospital treatment. In addition, the very recent cases regarding fake vaccines for children are proof that our public health system is under threat.
Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) chairman Tulus Abadi has called on the government to further investigate the fake-vaccine case, saying that a pharmaceutical industry cartel was behind the distribution of the counterfeit vaccines.
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