Recruiting patients for drug trials in India is big business....India's outsourced call centres are well known, but not its outsourced patients.....
Please read through !!
India has the largest pool of patients suffering from cancer, diabetes and other maladies is leading the country to an altogether different destination: the global hub of outsourcing of clinical trials .
Six years ago, an experimental drug from the US called M4N was injected into cancer patients in India without being properly tested on animals first. Later it was discovered that several patients had not known they were part of a clinical trial. By 2010, some estimate there will be two million patients in India on clinical trials .
Dr Shashank Joshi, says "Most of the patients sign on the dotted line without understanding the nature and the consequences of what is being administered to them." ( one of the reason being they r uneducated who just cannot read, n just sign up on the document given to them )
A top name involved more than once in this controversy is world's second largest drug pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson.
This is what few of the patients under trail had to say :
"I was just told that the drugs were American. They used to give me the tablets and I used to eat them," says Parshottam Parmar.

"We just sign because I believe the doctor takes the signature to help us. That's why I sign it."
He says he had no idea that he was part of a clinical trial.
"I didn't know that experiments were being carried out on me. I was told that the old drugs were discontinued and were no longer available in the pharmacies.
Parshottam Parmar
"I don't know a lot about all these things. I am poor and I live in a small hut and I don't understand many things. The doctors are intelligent. They write the drugs for me so I have to take them accordingly."
A doctor named V Narayan Bhattathiri, exposed few of these trails, inturn what he got was being sacked by the hospital he was working for and currently is finding it difficult to meet the ends.
Trials for a standard drug in the United States can cost about $150 million. A similar drug could be tested in India at a 60 per cent reduction of that whopping cost.....n sadly the Indian government is all set to further boost it, by giving a green signal to plenty of foreign companies !!
FUCK D SYSTEM !! Motha fuckerrzzzzzzzzz !!
2 comments:
sad to know how much innocent indians are cheated these days.nd dat too to this extend whr its a question of ther life..creating awareness is the nly hope.hop every1 passes on such mesag..
wishes
jinu
Neat work dude...
man didnt know this stuff....... uncle sam ain't dirty only wid d nukes...and we have so many in our system would b fun to have these tests on the inner circle...bastards...
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