Beijing will discipline 39 hospital workers that took illegal kickbacks as China’s crackdown on pharmaceutical and health care misconduct continues, Bloomberg reported, citing a Tuesday report by state-backed Xinhua News Agency. The hospital staff allegedly received US$460,000 in illegal kickbacks from two pharmaceutical companies between January 2010 and December 2012, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Nine doctors have been dismissed, suspended or had their licenses revoked. Other cases involve the vice chairman of the hospital’s trade union and two people in charge of two unnamed pharmaceutical companies.
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