HEALTH officials are to ask the police to investigate a Hong Kong-born doctor's claims concerning an anti-HIV drug which he plans to donate to China.
Assistant director of health for special medical services Dr Lam Ping-yan said the Health Department would refer comments made by Dr Paul Ki as it was possible they contravened the Undesirable Medical Advertisements Ordinance, which forbids the advertising of medicines.
Dr Ki yesterday announced the Chinese Government had ''confirmed'' the safety of his drug Retrogen.
Dr Ki, president of the Hong Kong Washington Company, said he would donate about US$4 million (HK$30.92 million) worth of the drug, which he described as ''a potent anti-HIV compound'' to China ''to save all the Chinese patients who are suffering from AIDS''.
China had reported 1,150 HIV-infected people, he said.
Dr Lam said the Department of Health believed Dr Ki's comments could contravene the Undesirable Medical Advertisements Ordinance.
Under section three of the ordinance, no person should publish, or cause to be published, any advertisement likely to induce people to buy a medicine.
