Developing countries are ripe for pharmaceutical bribery of doctors:
Gifts include air conditioners, laptops, club membership, domestic cattle, foreign conferences at five-star hotels, brand new cars and school tuition fees, according to the report. Murad Khan, professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry at Aga Khan University, told researchers that in Pakistan “for writing 200 prescriptions of the company’s high priced drug, a doctor is rewarded with the down payment of a brand new car.”
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