Record Bad Medicine Haul
Police seized more than two tonnes of dangerous counterfeit medication on Saturday and arrested a Phnom Penh pharmacy owner in a sting officials say has netted the largest-ever haul of illegal medication in Cambodia. After nine days of surveillance, the Ministry of Interior’s Economic Police unit swooped in on the Chamkarmon district drugstore and arrested 49-year-old Heang Chamroeun, who they allege trafficked 42 kinds of expired, sub-standard and fake medication worth an estimated $100,000. … In 2002, the World Health Organisation issued a draft Study on Counterfeit and Substandard Drugs, reporting that 13 per cent of medication on sale in Cambodia was fake or sub-standard and that government inactivity had allowed the problem to manifest. …
