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From: "Dr. Naghman Bashir" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:09:42 +0500 To: International Critical Care Medicine Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CCM-L] [silk] Shortage of medicines and control of regulatory?authorities. Reply-To: International Critical Care Medicine Group <[email protected]> My question was: are there any regularly bodies which would enforce production of medicines whihc are in short supply mostly because of monopoly of brand leaders? ministry of health or any other controlling authority? I can reply with endless arguments about terrorism and countries but this is not the forum. Let this forum focus on only medical and ethical issues rather tha political ones. Kindest regards On Wednesday, August 8, 2012, Eugen Leitl wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from ss <[email protected] <javascript:;>> ----- > > From: ss <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 08:24:39 +0530 > To: [email protected] <javascript:;> > Subject: Re: [silk] > [CCM-L] Shortage of medicines and control of > regulatory?authorities. > User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32-41-generic; KDE/4.4.5; i686; ; ) > Reply-To: [email protected] <javascript:;> > > On Wednesday 08 Aug 2012 1:12:33 am Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Currently we face severe shortage of thyroxine, neomercazole, > procarbizole, > > digoxin, alprazolam, sleep inducers, and injectable beta blockers to > name a > > few. > > These are manufactured and available in India in huge amounts and at lower > prices than anywhere else in the world. Thyroxine for example costs less > than > US$ 0.02 per tablet (listed price) - so that a year's supply of tablets is > available for about US $5 > > But Pakistan will not import from India for a multitude of reasons > including > the fact that Pakistan's major export to India is terrorism and Islamic > irredentism which is all that Pakistan seems to be able trade in exchange > for > imports. > > They could try their "taller than tallest mountain" friends the Chinese, > but > spurious drugs from China are part of their problem as far as my knowledge > goes. > > shiv > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > _______________________________________________ > CCM-L mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccm-l > -- Sent from my iPad, so excuse any typos... Dr. Naghman Bashir 89, Doctors Town, Lohi Bher, Islamabad. Pakistan. _______________________________________________ CCM-L mailing list [email protected] https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccm-l ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
