The Beijing Municipal Health Department is starting a campaign against business bribery in the medical sector and the first batch of 21 medicine companies have been included on a blacklist.
The 21 companies are Beijing Yuandong De'er Medical Instrument Company, Shenzhen Piji Bio-engineering Company, Beijing Chengzhi Huajia Technology Company, Aonuo (Hebei) Pharmaceutical Company, Shanghai Yida Medical Instrument Company, Beijing Banbosi Trade Company, Beijing Hengsanjiang Instrument Sales Company, Beijing Hua'erjie Trade Center, Beijing Weili New Centurry Technology Development Company, Sakura Beijing Branch, Beijing Fuji Medical Instrument and Equipment Company, Beijing Kanglingsheng No. 2 Technology Company, Beijing Wanfengda Medicine Company, Beijing Weikang Jinshi Medical Instrument Company, Beijing Xinyang Rong'an Trade Company, Beijing Asite Medical Instrument and Technology Development Company, Beijing Wei Ao Kang Medical Company, Beijing Shiqikang Trade Company, Hong Kong Yaotao Company, Beijing Xiehe Medical Company and Beijing Jianwei Hongtong Medical Instrument Supplying Station.
These companies have been asked not to sell their products in the Beijing market for two years during which none of the Beijing medical institutions are also allowed to purchase any goods from them.
BMHD says that the blacklist was made in accordance with the Ministry of Health's "Regulation on Establishing Business Bribery Record in Medicine Selling and Outsourcing Sector" and Beijing's own focus on cleaning out Beijing's medical market and regulating the medical market.