Public Health The Loser in Pan Pharmaceutical Farce 29/4/2007
Public Health Was The Loser in Pan Pharmaceutical Farce
The Pan Pharmaceutical case that has just been thrown out of court has caused great hardship to people who depended on the hundreds of medications Pan was making, medications that in some cases were available nowhere else.
The authorities don't close down hospitals every time a patient dies from human error. They don't close down a multinational pharmaceutical company every time one of their products is taken off the market because
of adverse side effects.
The "alternative" health industry is judged by different yardsticks to the multinationals, because the multinationals that run the TGA want to eliminate the competition.
One Nation says the health care of Australians will improve and be cheaper when institutionalised and official bias against "alternative" and natural therapies no longer plays any part in government policy.