Competition Commission slams company for drug pricing that saw cancer patients go without treatment

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'The commission has prioritised this case because the impact of excessive pricing of Trastuzumab falls heavily on women, particularly poor women, who cannot access essential treatment because they cannot afford to pay for it,' competition commissioner ...

At the time the organisation said: “Roche is able to charge such a high price as it holds multiple patents on the drug, which may block cheaper biosimilars from being sold in SA until 2033.”

He said the commission’s investigation found that the excessive pricing conduct took place between January 2011 and November 2020 in the South African private healthcare sector, and in the South African public healthcare sector during the period November 9 to July 2020. Value-based price benchmarks — the commission relied on ratios estimating the additional value and/or the benefit attributable to Trastuzumab against the income per capita — a proxy of the affordability of Trastuzumab.

 

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