The executive director of the Asociacion de Industrias Farmaceuticas Dominicanas (INFADOMI), which represents Dominican pharmaceutical manufacturers, has accused the state pharmaceutical branch Promese of distributing medicines that do not meet minimum standards. During a press conference, Ho Chi Vega, executive director of INFADOMI, presented samples of the medicines in question. The organization criticizes Promese for purchasing medicines for distribution in hospital pharmacies from non-traditional suppliers whose products do not meet the legal, sanitary and quality requirements. Promese director, Juan Francisco Benoit, responded that if INFADOMI did not retract the comment, he would personally sue the individual members of the association. “Those are lies and abuses because the medicine that is sold at the hospital pharmacies has been tested in the quality control department of the National Library and we do spot checks as per an agreement with Indotec,” he said.
