Fight against counterfeit drugs should avoid exercise

Shao Mingli, director of the State Food and Drug Administration, stated at the national food and drug supervision and management meeting on the 20th that in 2012, the regulatory authorities will continue to maintain a high pressure on counterfeit drugs.

Fake medicine harms tigers! The harm lies not only in the inability to treat the disease, but more importantly in delaying the best time for treatment. The lighter one leads to aggravation of the patient's condition, and the severer one may lead to death. Therefore, it is necessary for regulators to maintain a high pressure on counterfeit drugs. However, I would like to remind relevant departments to rectify the order of the pharmaceutical market and avoid the mode of exercise-based governance.

At present, once a problem arises within the scope of the mandate of many government departments, it is almost a model to exercise sport governance immediately after the higher authorities, especially the central leadership. Sports governance refers to the temporary suspension of other issues when faced with a core goal. Resources such as human resources, material resources, and financial resources tend to be the core target, and a campaign is launched in a short period of time in order to achieve legal goals quickly.

Vigorous and vigorous sports governance will undoubtedly allow superior departments and leaders to see results in the short term. Not long ago, the Ministry of Public Security unifiedly directed the 29 provincial police to launch a “battle” against counterfeit medicines, killing 350 counterfeit drug criminal gangs in one fell swoop, destroying 1,400 counterfeit counters and seizing more than 300 million fake drugs. (Grain, branch). According to the value of genuine products, the value of counterfeit drugs exceeds 2 billion yuan, and the result can be described as brilliant. However, one cannot help but ask: If there are institutionalized governance measures at ordinary times, why is it necessary to implement this kind of campaign-style remediation? What is even more disturbing is that many facts have shown that this type of exercise-based governance is not a permanent solution, and that the problem will soon be revived. Does our governance must jump in the two extremes of “doing nothing” and exercising remediation?

It is undoubtedly the blessing of patients and the blessings of the people to continue to maintain a high pressure on counterfeit drugs. It is undoubtedly a blessing to patients and a fundamental solution to the problems, we must change the mode of governance and establish a long-term mechanism. Strengthen the daily effective management of various departments and maintain the order of the pharmaceutical market. If sports-style remediation is used at all times, it is impossible to fundamentally eliminate the occurrence of counterfeit drugs.