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Global 3000 | Perus Struggle Against Bogus Medicines

127 views · Published 6 May 2009 · 4:32 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: DW News · 2009 · News & Politics

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In Peru,taking medicine can be like Russian roulette. 40 percent of all medicines on the Peruvian market are counterfeit. And users are lucky if the medicine is merely ineffective. The pills and treatments are often poisonous,harming more than they help  sometimes even causing death.The police and public health authorities cannot control the problem. There are hundreds of small pharmacist shops in Lima alone. And thats where most Peruvians get their medicine. Its cheap there  but dangerous. Hospitals offer trustworthy medicine,but it costs about 20 percent more.

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