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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 11:12 #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 11:19 #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 11:32 #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" :

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02 Nov 2012 11:33 #109017
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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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