Pharmaceutical companies have been banned from giving financial or related incentives to healthcare professionals in an attempt to influence their prescription of drugs to patients.
In its new code of practice, the Kenya Association of Pharmaceutical Industry has proscribed the offering of any financial or material benefit, including grants, scholarships, subsidies, support, consulting contracts or educational or practice-related items, to doctors as an inducement for prescribing, recommending, purchasing, supplying or administering particular products.
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