Shrkeli has reportedly planned to increase the price of the commonly-used drug for treating chagas disease in the USA.
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‘Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO gets under fire for planning to overprice the already available common drug for treating Chagas disease in the US. But the drug is already available for free in Latin America.’
Martin Shrkeli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals has also taken control of KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, which owns the generic version of the Chagas drug, benznidazole. The drug has been approved by the FDA for use in the Latin american region but not in the United States. Taking this as an advantage, Shrkeli has reportedly planned to increase the price of the drug in the USA. He has told his company to fast-track the approval of this drug so they can be entitled to have exclusive rights to it within the next five years. By then, the drug could be selling at least $60,000 per treatment, a far cry from $50 to $100 plan given to Latin America over the course of two months.
The drug has a 100% cure rate especially when the patient is treated during the early stages of the disease and is also available for free in acute cases.
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