Pharma News (Shanghai) news, a few days ago, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, People's Procuratorate issued a news release, Changzhou City, Wujin People's Hospital, orthopedic director Wang Sheng Xie was sentenced to six years of imprisonment for the crime of accepting bribes, and punished with a fine of RMB 500,000 yuan.
Wang Shengxie was investigated and subjected to criminal coercive measures on May 5 last year, according to Surfing News, which learned from the prosecution that he fell in the midst of a medical anti-corruption storm that spread across the country.
According to incomplete statistics, last year alone, more than 380 medical personnel were investigated nationwide***. In this round of anti-corruption storm, Changzhou Wujin People's Hospital "loss" is not small, "folded" a number of generals, *** orthopedics, laboratory, intensive care medicine, cardiology and other four departments in charge of the "horse ".
The surging news reporter noted that these departments are medical consumables "big", department heads in medical devices, equipment, test reagents procurement recommendations, applications for the use of a certain right to speak, they have also become some medical device companies "roundups "The company's main goal is to make sure that the company's products and services are well received by the public.
And the medical and health field of job crime, but also gradually from the drug-related fields, the transition to the field of medical supplies. Medical consumables-related departments have become the new high ground of medical corruption.
Orthopaedic director of more than 3.5 million yuan in bribes
This year's 59-year-old Wang Sheng solution, from March 2003 to the time of the crime in 2016 to, in a long time of more than a decade, Wang Sheng solution has been serving as the director of orthopaedic department of the Wujin People's Hospital in Changzhou City, during the period of time, but also served as the deputy director of the major surgical department and other positions.
According to the court's verdict, Wang Shenglai served as director of the orthopedic department of the Wujin People's Hospital during the period, the use of the convenience of his position, for the relevant units and individuals in the sale of medical equipment and other aspects of the interests of others, illegally accepted bribes of others to send money,*** counting the value of more than 3,590,000 yuan.
The 11 companies that sent the money were all medical device companies, and they were as little as 5,000 yuan and as much as 760,000 yuan. Some companies sent money in the name of "academic sponsorship", while others made it clear that they would give kickbacks of 15-30 percent of their business volume or sales when selling their products.
Why bribe Wang Shengli?
A number of corporate sales leaders interrogated by the judiciary said that, as the director of orthopedics, Wang Shenglai in orthopedics, the introduction of medical equipment, the use of brand selection and the entry of new brands have the right to decide. In order to establish a business relationship, or to maintain and improve business, it is necessary to have a good relationship with him.
For example, Wang Sheng solution in the past 10 years, *** accept Changzhou City, Ribel medical equipment limited general manager Yang Ling sent cash 680,000 yuan. Each time as little as 50,000 yuan, 80,000 yuan, as much as 100,000 yuan.
As a "reward", Yang Ling in Wujin hospital sales of Bonneville brand artificial joints, Bell steel plate and other products, the volume of business from 2007 to 2012, more than 3.49 million yuan, soared to 2013 to 2015, more than 6.22 million yuan, nearly doubled.
It is understood that the prosecution is being is the day after the general manager of Changzhou Ribeier company Yang Ling suspected of bribery to take detention, only to Wang Shengxie filed for investigation.
Four department heads in one hospital fall
Wang Shengxie fell amid a medical device anti-corruption storm that spread across the country last year.
At the end of 2016, according to statistics from the People's Procuratorate's Case Information Network, a professional platform for the medical and pharmaceutical industry, there were 386 medical personnel investigated in the national healthcare system*** in 2016, of which 82 were deans and 25 vice presidents, most of whom were convicted of bribery. Among the hospital departments involved in the case, 43 in the testing department, 18 in the pharmacy department, 17 in the orthopedics department, and some departments are even suspected of unit bribery offenses.
This round of anti-corruption storm, Wang Sheng solution in Changzhou City, Wujin People's Hospital, can be said to be "loss" is not small, folded a number of generals.
Wujin People's Hospital was born in 1949, is a three-level general hospital, but also the first batch of basic modernization of hospitals in Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu University affiliated Wujin Hospital, Jiangsu University, master's degree and Shanghai Tongji University School of Medicine teaching hospital.
The surging news combed through and found that only in 2016 a year, Wujin People's Hospital, there are four departments in charge of bribery fall, in addition to orthopedics, but also the Department of Laboratory Science, Critical Care Medicine, cardiology. These departments are mostly key clinical specialties in Changzhou City.
They are: Jiang Lixin, director of the Laboratory, Lu Jie, former director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, and Weng Wei, former deputy director of the Department of Cardiology. They are all suspected of accepting bribes and have been indicted.
The surging news combed through the information made public by the prosecution and found that in Jiangsu province, the orthopedic directors of major hospitals who were investigated together with Wang Shengxie during the same period last year (2016) also include Wang Jinguang, deputy director of the orthopedic department of the First People's Hospital of Yangzhou city, Fu Chen, deputy director of the orthopedic department of the First People's Hospital of Yangzhou city, and Cao Fei, director of the orthopedic department of Gaoyao Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Medical equipment in the field of corruption "new high ground"
The high price of medicines, drug kickbacks, has become the anti-corruption departments of the local procuratorial organs to combat the key object.
However, the surging news reporter noted that in recent years, medical consumables have become a new high-risk zone in the medical industry that is prone to corruption, especially orthopedics, laboratory and other departments that use more medical equipment.
Industry insiders say, the medical system as a special industry of professionalism, independence is very strong, although theoretically the purchase of medical testing consumables, etc. is run by the equipment department, but due to the strong specialization of medical consumables, etc., in the face of a medical device commonly used dozens of brands, the department director, as a backbone of the specialty's business, medical authority, has a certain right to speak, the director of the department of the views on the The company's purchase orders mean that the purchase of equipment and devices, determining the medical device company's financial road, the director of the department naturally become a medical device company to compete for the "hunting" object.
According to a report by Xinhua, companies in the bidding, in order to obtain high profits, but also need to give priority to hospitals, long-term use of its medical supplies, and therefore often bribe the main person in charge of the hospital, the name of the "fixed supply and marketing channels".
And in 2017, the medical system's anti-corruption storm continues.
Jiangsu alone, for example, according to the People's Procuratorate case information open network news, Taixing City Hospital inspection section of the former director of Gu Yaping, Jiangyin Municipal People's Hospital, medical equipment section chief Guo Mingquan, inspection section director Zhou Jianbo, inspection section deputy director of Zhang Ting, inspection section, the former director of the Lu Meiyi, the original director of the financial section Li Zuying, and so on, recently, also because of the suspicion of bribery was filed for investigation.