The new, very recent scandals in Tuscany, with the investigations into the world of cardiac stents and cardiology equipment and that into the world of powdered milk (involving dealers, sales agents and doctors) once again raise questions and problems often addressed only in words .
First of all, let's immediately clear up a misunderstanding: the gentlemen involved in these investigations They are NOT Scientific Representatives of Drug. They do not have the legal requirements nor the contractual framework.
Although the companies they represent are serious and qualified companies with absolutely safe and effective products, equipped with stringent ethical codes like almost all companies in the sector, these gentlemen, by virtue of their working relationship, find themselves in a position to be able to act in full freedom with a single beacon as a guide: "the more I sell, the more I earn" as if these sectors were not cornerstones of the population's demand for health.
Unfortunately, a commission or agency contract framework is present and has spread in recent years also in the world of drugs and not only in that of diagnostics and principals.
FEDAIISF has been bringing attention to the issue of profit associated with work ethics for years. It is sacrosanct that private companies pursue profit but they must do so through an ethics that in the field of health It is NOT derogable.
Ministry of Health and AIFA so they run for cover: let's eliminate all commission and sales agent contracts from the health sector, let's go back to offering all professionals in the sector, who must have a high and adequate professional qualification, a contract that is mostly unrelated to performance of sale such as the national contract of chemists.
If all this is not done, let us get ready again for other scandals in the world of health, but let us not be surprised why this happens.
Section FEDAIISF FLORENCE
