Her Majesty's Government is colluding with known criminals - or perhaps one should merely say negotiating therewith. It is entirely likely that some of aforesaid negotiators will be retiring in the next few years, leaving with their golden handshakes to be greeted at Fresenius with their well deserved golden hellos. It is certainly SOP [ standard operating procedure ] in the civil service and politics in these days of growing corruption. One accepts that their payment of $379 million in fines was the result of misunderstandings rather than criminal intent and that they will try not to get caught again. So Private Eye [ 1227/10 ] got them bang to rights again.
The Eye tells us that:-
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THE future isn't looking too healthy for private-equity owned dialysis company Euromedic after the Eye's revelations last August of its record of infecting and abandoning patients in Poland and Turkey (see Eye 1217).
At the time an announcement was due on a £100m dialysis contract for hospitals in south London, for which Euromedic had claimed to have an "understanding" with the NHS. Five months on, no announcement is forthcoming. But don't celebrate just yet. Favourite to benefit from Euromedic's misfortune is US-German healthcare company Fresenius. And far from contributing to the diversity of health care provision the government insists it wants, the deal would give the firm a near 90 percent share of private dialysis in Britain and a majority of the dialysis equipment and consumables market.
All of which is a worry. For last year, to avoid prosecution Fresenius admitted to its role in a South African cartel carving up the market for intravenous medical products. And in 2000 the company was fined a record $486m in the US over frauds involving kick-backs for contracts and fictitious blood testing.
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Euromedic seems to have gotten away with the publicity. It handled the public relations side of things much better. Bad or worse are the options with those wonderful people at the helm
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