PUTRAJAYA: A purported fake blood screening campaign aimed to sell additional health products to senior citizens is being investigated by the Health Ministry.

       Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin (pic) said the ministry would be cooperating with the police to track down the parties involved.

       “Any campaign, if identified to be fake, must be immediately investigated so that appropriate action can be taken.

       “We do not want the people, especially the elderly, to become victims and to be deceived by such campaigns,” he said when met by reporters at the Prime Minister’s Aidilfitri open house at Seri Perdana here yesterday, Bernama reported.

       Khairy was commenting on a news report on the activities of direct sales agents who organised blood screening campaigns in the Klang Valley aimed at deceiving the elderly into buying additional health food supplements from the companies involved.