On April 11, the Datong Health Commission issued a statement stating that in response to "a doctor from a top-level hospital in Shanxi revealing that he had received more than 500,000 yuan in kickbacks", the Datong Municipal Health Commission attached great importance to it and, in accordance with relevant industry management regulations, " "Zero tolerance" approach to medical kickbacks. A working group has been dispatched to investigate on April 10. Violations of management regulations will be dealt with seriously in accordance with laws and regulations once verified.
Recently, a video has attracted attention on the Internet. In the video, a man claimed to be a doctor at a tertiary hospital in Datong, Shanxi. He revealed that he had received more than 500,000 yuan in kickbacks over 10 years. In another of his videos, he further stated that his superiors also knew about the kickback because he did not do it alone. He and his colleagues, directors, deputy deans, and principal deans are basically involved in this matter.
The doctor said that he reported to the Commission for Discipline Inspection in 2018 and was retaliated against by the hospital for this. In the video, he also said that he realized his mistake and decided to change his past, and hoped that the relevant departments could conduct a thorough investigation. He also said that if there is another chance to be a doctor in the future, "I hope to be able to live a clean life, practice medicine cleanly, stay away from kickbacks, and refuse red envelopes."
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" "Zero tolerance" and severe crackdown on behaviors such as taking kickbacks
Doctors' behavior that violates medical ethics and medical ethics, such as taking kickbacks and taking red envelopes, must be severely cracked down on with "zero tolerance".
On the one hand, measures such as centralized bulk purchase of drugs can be adopted to compress the space for rebates, significantly reduce drug purchase prices, and further reduce the financial burden on patients;
On the other hand, for Similar to the real-name exposure and reporting of kickbacks, it is necessary to thoroughly investigate the content of the report and make the results public. We can neither wrongly accuse a good person due to malicious reporting, nor let a bad person go by "not making an example".
If the reports are true, they should be severely held accountable and punished, and illegal gains confiscated; if a crime is constituted, they should be resolutely transferred to the judicial authorities for criminal responsibility, so as to serve as a warning to others.