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PNG Pharmacy Denies Illegal Venom Sale

 

04-Mar-2008: Papua New Guinea-based company City Pharmacy Ltd (CPL) has denied illegally importing and selling pharmaceuticals.

"All medical supplies from Australia, New Zealand, India, UK, USA and Malaysia are from the World Health Organization-certified manufacturers (and) City Pharmacy employs 40 qualified pharmacists providing a nationwide coverage of health care," said CPL chairman Alan Jarvis.

He was replying to a recent report on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's
Foreign Correspondent Program, which revealed that a PNG-based pharmacy was selling anti-snake venom for Indian poisonous snakes.

Health/HIV AIDS Minister Sasa Zibe went undercover in the ABC program and posed as a snake venom buyer to prove reports that the pharmacy was illegally selling the Indian-made medication.

But Jarvis, in a full-page statement in one of PNG's daily newspapers, denied his company committing acts of impropriety said they were ready to let the PNG Health Department do an audit of its staff and 24 pharmacies.

"City Pharmacy conducts its affairs in a transparent manner and is willing to subject its 24 pharmacies for audit and inspection by the Department of Health and is prepared to make available its 1400 staff members as part of any such investigation," said the CPL chairman.

City Pharmacy has never received or sold any stolen pharmaceuticals, he added.
The revelations by the ABC report coincides with an investigation by the PNG Health Department into why government-bought drugs are not being delivered to hospitals and health centers in rural PNG.

The department is looking at setting up a drug registration program to prevent the illegal import of medicines, which Jarvis indicated would be supported by CPL.

"City Pharmacy is a trusted health care provider in Papua New Guinean, we respect and honor that trust and we strive to maintain the highest integrity and ethics at all times, whilst providing healthcare products and medicines for the best prices," he added.

PNG has one of the world's highest snakebite fatality rates but anti-snake venom is not easily accessible by government-owned hospitals and district-based health centers due to its exorbitant cost.

Source: pacific