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India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon - ketchim - 11-02-2012
"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 "
hocked:
Re: India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon - Snoopster - 11-02-2012
Did you get your flu shot yet Bro?
Re: India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon - ketchim - 11-02-2012
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Did you get your flu shot yet Bro?
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Never had it ....never will :wink:
Fresh Vitamin C via fresh fruits ..
Re: India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon - ketchim - 11-02-2012
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.... [img alt=::redface::]http://www.westindiesforum.com/Smileys/default/icon_redface.gif[/img]
Re: India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon - ketchim - 11-02-2012
Narayan Survaiya's mother Tizuja Bai died:
several weeks after being given new drugs
ad: ![[Image: _63794904_tezuja.jpg]](http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63794000/jpg/_63794904_tezuja.jpg)
Re: India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon - Nargis - 11-02-2012
happens all over the world
Re: India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon - ketchim - 11-02-2012
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::
Re: India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon - ketchim - 11-02-2012
But this time it was different and they were seen immediately. ::redcard::
Re: India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon - ketchim - 11-02-2012
"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::
Re: India Guinea Pigs :PharmaGeddon - ketchim - 11-02-2012
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.