THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A report prepared by department of vigilance states that the government doctors and private medical shops have secret ties in connection with the sale of medicines. Government doctors are sending patients to private medical shops for buying medicines and implants. The doctors will receive a special commission on a monthly basis for this. The medical education director has issued a circular instructing the doctors that medicines should be presribed from government hospitals or HLL.
Several doctors also recommend private labs for performing costly tests such as ultra sound and MRI. Many patients have complained that if the patients do not go to such private labs and medical shops, the doctors will not consult them properly.