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Earlier in the year, <a title=\"11 Indian Doctors suspended for taking kickbacks from Pharma companies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrounds.org\/blog\/doctors_and_pharama_comapanies\/\">11 doctors were suspended for attending sponsored international conferences and returning favours to a Ahmedabad based company.<\/a> Recently in an another incident, <a title=\"The earthquake in Nepal cracks open the nexus between doctors and pharmaceutical companies in India\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrounds.org\/blog\/the-earthquake-in-nepal-cracks-open-the-nexus-between-doctors-and-pharmaceutical-companies-in-india\/\">Nepal earthquake had incidentally exposed one such sponsored trips.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Andhra Pradesh Medical Council(APMC) started digging into the details of the nexus between an Ahmedabad-based pharma company and 40 doctors from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, they unearthed a deep nexus which involved several other companies. 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