GWR
23-07-06, 12:35 AM
This was showcased frontpage today: -
http://news.balita.ph/html/article.php/20060720201707699
New Woman nabbed for bringing home "cheap" Bangkok medicines - Cebu News, July 20, 2006
...Agents from the Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and Bureau of Customs-Mactan held Montesclaros for questioning after seizing 40,800 tablets of assorted medicines.
Also confiscated from her were 20 bottles of Mycostatin oral drugs and 300 tubes of Nisoral (5mg) ointment along with 552 units of Mena facial cream.
...Carlito Ermac, chief of the K-9 group of PDEA, said his office was tipped off by the NBI that Montesclaros and one of her companions were scheduled to arrive in Cebu allegedly carrying illegal drugs worth P6 million from Bangkok.
A source from the Philippines' big pharma sector recently told me that Filipinos were usually obsessed by big name proprietories (not always produced in the ROTP), and had to pay top dollar as a result. Said source was impressed by the prices and quality of Thailand's generics. It seems that at least one other Filipino has roughly the same idea.
http://news.balita.ph/html/article.php/20060720201707699
New Woman nabbed for bringing home "cheap" Bangkok medicines - Cebu News, July 20, 2006
...Agents from the Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and Bureau of Customs-Mactan held Montesclaros for questioning after seizing 40,800 tablets of assorted medicines.
Also confiscated from her were 20 bottles of Mycostatin oral drugs and 300 tubes of Nisoral (5mg) ointment along with 552 units of Mena facial cream.
...Carlito Ermac, chief of the K-9 group of PDEA, said his office was tipped off by the NBI that Montesclaros and one of her companions were scheduled to arrive in Cebu allegedly carrying illegal drugs worth P6 million from Bangkok.
A source from the Philippines' big pharma sector recently told me that Filipinos were usually obsessed by big name proprietories (not always produced in the ROTP), and had to pay top dollar as a result. Said source was impressed by the prices and quality of Thailand's generics. It seems that at least one other Filipino has roughly the same idea.