PUTRAJAYA, May 2 — Allegations that enforcement officers from the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living (KPDN) had threatened clinics for failing to comply with the mandatory drug price display directive are false.

The KPDN’s enforcement director-general Datuk Azman Adam told reporters here today that the officers involved were conducting routine inspections as part of the ministry’s daily operations.

“It was purely coincidental that our team was on duty in that area yesterday,” he said in a joint news conference with the Health Ministry to address allegations and criticism about the mandatory drug price display policy, which came into force yesterday.

He said KPDN does not only oversee the implementation of the price labelling directive for drugs.

“We also had ongoing operations such as Ops Gasak involving cooking gas, and inspections related to the government’s new initiative on chicken eggs,” he said.

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