This study highlights that medical students in our population have a high level of acceptability towards incentives offered by pharmaceutical industry and that formal guidance regarding the subject should be incorporated into medical curriculum.
Students approached in our study belonging to both public and private setup had pre-existing opinions regarding appropriate doctor-pharmaceutical interaction and demonstrated a high level of acceptability towards incentives and gifts offered by them.
People from lower socio-economic classes and younger age groups, the population groups which tend to have the lowest participation rates in health examination surveys, had more positive attitude towards incentives [ 27].
While they are seldom exact predictors of behavior, surveys can still provide very important insights into public common sense [ 9, 10] and reveal public moralities towards organ donation as well as towards the incentive debate [ 11- 13].
A representative from the RCC did not perceive the RCC meetings as a particularly suitable arena for environmental organizations to attend, as he noted that the agenda is mostly directed towards pastoralists, for instance, allocating money towards various incentives and regarding grazing matters.
The government said that this will "provide certainty for investment and an incentive towards greater roll-out towards universality".
