Bayer CEO Says Drugs Developed For “Western Patients Who Can Afford It”

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Bayer CEO Says Drugs Developed For “Western Patients Who Can Afford It”
Pratap Chatterjee
February 5th, 2014

Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant, is in hot water after CEO Marijn Dekkers told a Financial Times conference that the company designed medicines “for western patients who can afford it” not for the “Indian market.” The company has been critical of the Indian governments efforts to make cheap generic drugs available locally.

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