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Letters
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
Keep bees beaming
Mystery stricken
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2010
ALREADY battling with Japanese Encephalitis, eastern Uttar Pradesh is now under the grip of a mystery fever. Till September 16 this year, 277 children died in 12 districts of the region. The physicians and scientists remain clueless about the genesis of the disease.
Jan Aushadhi Stores fail to take off
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2010
Bindeshwari, a scrap dealer in Punjab’s Ludhiana district, was asked to buy Cefzy-250 by the doctor treating his wife.
Nagaur breaks free of pharma stranglehold
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2010
Patients visiting public health centres in Nagaur district in central Rajasthan these days rarely buy branded drugs. Doctors direct them to the government- run generic medicine stores (GMS) where quality drugs are available at low cost.
Pharma companies determine what patients buy
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2010
In an ideal market economy competition lowers prices of consumer goods. It is just the opposite in the case of pharmaceutical products. More expensive brands sell more.
Succour in strife
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2010
“It was a major shock when I got here,” says Tom Krueger. “You can’t describe the sweat down your back, the smell of the pus that hits your nose.” Krueger is a doctor with the Medecins Sans Frontieres (msf). He is speaking of the pain of working at Mamba Point Hospital, the only free hospital serving about a million people in Liberia’s capital Monrovia.
Left to quacks
@alok227 Issue Date: Jan 31, 2010
Two-year-old Khushi Kumari loves racing with her siblings and at the end of each run she gives out a hearty laugh. The only time she breaks into fits of inconsolable crying is when approached by a stranger. “She fears she would get injections again,” said her mother Dinapati Yadav of Haldichapra village in Patna district.
A programme for the polio victim?
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2010
It is not easy to trust a doctor who comes calling, studies the patient’s sickness, and leaves without a prescription even. More so when the patient is a child in a poor family and has polio.
Yet this is routine in parts of the country where polio is endemic. Each child with symptoms like fever, muscle aches and abdominal pain is visited by teams from the World Health Organisation, for stool samples. This is to check for the presence of the polio virus and identify the strain circulating in the area. That done, the child becomes a statistic.
Unethical snooping
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2010
A large number of Indonesians have come out in support of year-long woman fined for criticizing the country’s healthcare provision in an e-mail to friends. From Aceh to Bali, Indonesians have donated a truckload of coins to help Prita Mulyasari pay a fine of 204 million rupiah (US $21,400) after she was convicted of defamation by a Jakarta court.
When the government must step in
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2010
When the United Progressive Alliance (upa) triumphed at the hustings exactly a year ago, both its supporters and detractors agreed the victory vindicated the government’s social welfare schemes. The upa, in its first avatar, brought a new lease of life in many areas of the social welfare sector. It discarded moribund state-centred approaches, involved local communities and tried to draw in the private sector.
