Germany's Merck halts supply of cancer drug to Greek hospitals
Source: Reuters
German pharmaceuticals firm Merck KGaA is no longer delivering cancer drug Erbitux to Greek hospitals, a spokesman said on Saturday, the latest sign of how an economic and budget crisis is hurting frontline public services.
Drugmakers raised concerns with EU leaders earlier this year over supplies to the euro zone's crisis-hit southern half and Germany's Biotest in June was the first to stop shipments to Greece because of unpaid bills.
Publicly-owned hospitals in some countries worst hit by the euro zone debt crisis had been struggling to pay their bills, Merck's chief financial officer, Matthias Zachert, was quoted as saying by German paper Boersen-Zeitung in an interview on Saturday.
He said however that the only country where Merck had stopped deliveries was Greece.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/03/us-greece-drugs-idUSBRE8A205Z20121103
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Pay or Die...
Please note that does NOT allude to your ID : simply the subject in general.
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as I have no notion whatsoever of what you're harping on about. I have expressed no more than the generally accepted principle that suppliers of goods and services do in fact expect to be paid.
The avatar is associated with support of the Cuban people and their high regard for Guevara. Having been there yourself you will of course understand that. 
On the subject of Cuba - Cuba has managed despite the adversities caused by successive US governments as opposed to managing by fraud as have successive Greek governments.
On the subject of payment for goods whatever - you may recall Russia shutting down gas supplies to the Ukraine for the same reason. Do you regard Russia as being RW ?
... (i.e., somewhere between the Greek government for not paying their bills and Merck for drawing the
line on exactly what amount of credit to allow before saying "No more"
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Regardless of where you or I believe the exact point happens to be, there is
no need for your racist "fuck germany for this" comment.
Please edit your post.
In later news on the subject of the drugs companies it looks as though aside from not necessarily paying for the drugs the Greek government had been , until last month , re-exporting some of them.
See here :
The move follows growing concerns about the situation in Greece, where the government last month took the highly unusual step of suspending all drug exports from the country in an attempt to prevent shortages.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/05/us-greece-pharmaceuticals-idUKBRE8A40AL20121105
I'm not sure how their socialised healthcare program works. It seems to be the hospitals who were not paying the bills. When a similar situation occurred in Spain the government paid the invoices which is what I would have thought should've happened in Greece.
Words fail me; but, "wickedness," "iniquitous," 'sinful," and just plain evil come to mind!!!!!
