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02 Nov 2012 11:09 #108984 by ketchim
"We are low-caste people :

and normally when we go to the hospital we are given a five-rupee voucher,

but the doctor said he would give us a foreign drug costing 125,000 rupees "  :shocked:

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02 Nov 2012 11:10 #108987 by Snoopster
Did you get your flu shot yet Bro?

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02 Nov 2012 11:12 #108988 by ketchim

Never had it ....never will  :wink:

Fresh Vitamin C via fresh fruits .. 

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02 Nov 2012 11:12 #108989 by ketchim
Drug companies are facing mounting pressure to investigate reports :

that new medicines are being tested on some of the poorest people in India

without their knowledge....

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02 Nov 2012 11:13 #108990 by ketchim
Narayan Survaiya's mother Tizuja Bai died:

several weeks after being given new drugs  :sad:

           

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02 Nov 2012 11:17 #108993 by Nargis
happens all over the world

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02 Nov 2012 11:19 #108995 by ketchim
Mrs Bai was experiencing chest pains.

Their status as Dalits - the bottom of the Hindu caste system :

once known as untouchables -

meant that they were both accustomed to going to the back of the queue

when they arrived and waiting many hours before seeing a doctor.... ::redface::

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02 Nov 2012 11:30 #109014 by ketchim
But this time it was different and they were seen immediately.  ::redcard::

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02 Nov 2012 11:32 #109015 by ketchim
"The doctor took the five-rupee voucher given to BLPs [Below the Poverty Line]

like us and said the rest would be paid for :

by a special government fund for poor people"  ::eek::

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02 Nov 2012 11:33 #109017 by ketchim
She did not know was that her mother-in-law was being enrolled in a drugs trial !!

for the drug Tonapofylline :

which was being tested by Biogen Idec.

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