Throughout Germany, stolen anti-cancer drugs from Greece

The case of anti-cancer drugs stolen in Greece from the German market is in the media

In particular, the site Tagesschau (newsletter of the first program of the German public television ARD) publishes an article: " Suspected anti-cancer drugs have, of course, appeared on the German drug market, and pharmaceutical company Lunapharm Brandenburg is reported to have traveled millions of medicines stolen for years

. "This comes out of a list from the Ministry of Health of the state of Brandenburg, to which the rbb radio network has access. According to this report, from 2015 to 2017, Lunapharm has sold drugs to pharmacies and drug traffickers in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, Hamburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden Württemberg, Berlin, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. .

"The same company allegedly bought the drugs from a Greek pharmacy, which did not have a wholesale license in Germany. (…) There is no need for concern for patients, said the Ministry of Health, adding that the tested samples met the quality and content requirements of the active substance [19659005]. "On the contrary, and according to rbb, the Greek authorities fear that the drugs are not effective because the standards of cooling and storage have not been respected."

Question of life and death

Noting that the scandal does not only concern Brandenburg but Germany, Tagesspiegel argues that there should be political consequences because the state has not protected its citizens: "This does not concern Should not be the case.Because it is a matter of life and death.In Brandenburg, the Regional Health Service has failed in one of its key competences, drug control. 39, they have probably sold ineffective anticancer drugs for chemotherapy and given to patients for whom treatment may be the last salvation. […] There is no doubt that the Ministry of Health has no responsibility for them. but he p blame the responsibility when he does not react. Where, despite evidence of illegal activities for a long time, there are no consequences. In spring 2017, the Greek authorities informed that extensive therapies of anticancer drugs from hospitals were neither stored nor transported on the basis of specifications [2013]

. "They were then sold in Germany by a pharmaceutical company based in Brandenburg, against several million.The public prosecutor and the public prosecutor also notified the Ministry of Health, but that did not do much and the company continued

"(…) The loss of confidence could not be greater.The confidence in the state and the protection that it has to offer.And the Minister (Health) Golce? He is leading a field in which something has gone wrong and it has had serious consequences, and the competent administrative authority has not achieved anything.This is a political but also human error for Golce. Why something happened late: a clear apology to precarious families, in all ways and with all the compbadion Diana Goldce should take responsibility for it. "