Ironically, bad economics and worse politics have kept common people away from the grip of wonder drugs. As per news report, the unscrupulous elements in various private hospitals make sure that they have access to life-saving drugs sent by the International bodies for free distribution among the poor patients.
Surely, there is need to keep tab on the prices of medicines so that they remain within the reach of needy. Anyway, one needs to appreciate the efforts of various drug -producing labs like Bangalore Institute Of Oncology and the Triesta Sciences, which have formed Health Care Global to stop the menace of Cancer.
It’s no secret that quality research work have been abysmally low in the medical domain due to lack of enthusiasm and absence of well-equipped labs. Apart from changing the life style, the novel efforts of researchers would alone prevent the diseases like Cancer and AIDS to spread their tentacles. At the same time, the research initiatives are bound to increase the effectiveness of the treatment of Cancer by widening the scope of its interception from diverse angles.
Glad to see U after a long time..Yes,these spurious drugs are playing with the lives of patients.
Here are the views of some important people in this regard.
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”Dr. Sanjiv Zutshi, a New Delhi physician, thinks nearly anybody in India who receives medication is taking a gamble.”
”I think it must be 20 to 30 percent of the drugs might be counterfeit or substandard in that nature,” he said.
”Surveys have found that in some medicine bazaars here, more than 90 percent of the drugs bought and analyzed are fakes, although many come in sophisticated packaging and look just like the real thing.”
Former Health Minister Sushma Swaraj, now an opposition member of parliament, says those trading counterfeit drugs are conspiring in what she terms ”mass murder.” She says the culprits are not just drug manufacturers, distributors and retailers.
”Such crime is committed always in connivance with the police,” she said. ”So many people are being benefited by the money trail. But they don’t think how many hundreds of thousands of people are being killed.”
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Well, an amendment to India’s Drugs and Cosmetics Act along with conviction in line of this amendment will surely lessen the sale of spurious drugs.
How many can afford medication involved in treatment of cancer.One thing more.We have also need to lay stress on alternative source of treatment.We all know about the side effects of modern medicines.I know many people who preferred alternative treatment rather than relying on doses of pills!!