Hello PJ Sir, and all other PDMLer Friends who posted, I was recently in Wallmart, Toronto talking to the Pharmacist, a very knowledgeable person. I had fallen short of my BP medication RAMIPRIL 10 mg (famous brand name Altace) and asked for the cheapest one available. The brand I bought in Bangalore, India, costed me USD 1.20 for 10 capsules. She quoted $ 10 for a strip of 10 for a generic brand here in Canada.
Now it is for you folks to decide on the rampant profiteering by drug companies here in North America. Yes or no could be your personal choice, but being a global person I have seen the suffering of poor labourers, daily waged workers and others who just cannot afford costly medicines. Almost every drug is cheaper by one-tenth in India, and I note that India has paved the way for cheaper drugs that the poor of this world deserves. Here is an extract on Ramipril from Wikipedia org.:- "The compound was protected by U.S. Patent 5,061,722 which was assigned to the German pharmaceutical company Hoechst AG (since merged into Aventis) on 29 October 1991. The patent was scheduled to expire on 29 October 2008. On 11 September 2007, in an appeal by the Indian company Lupin Ltd., the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court trial verdict and found that Aventis's patent on Ramipril was invalid for "obviousness", opening this drug to generic manufacturers. Ramipril is marketed in India under the brand names of Cardace, Zigpril, Ramistar, Zorem, and many others". Regards. Bipin. camp: Thornhill, Toronto. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
