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chibiace t1_ja9p3tw wrote

Maybe India could give Pakistan some generic medicines to help forge closer ties

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autotldr t1_ja9q5nf wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)

> Drug retailers in Pakistan revealed that insulin, Disprin, Calpol, Tegral, Nimesulide, Hepamerz, Buscopan and Rivotril, are among the common and important drugs that are in shortage in the country.

> The present financial crisis in Pakistan has hit the healthcare system, leaving patients struggling for essential medicines.

> Almost 95 per cent of the drugs manufactured in Pakistan require raw materials which are imported from other nations, including India and China.

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SuspiciousStable9649 t1_ja9wcqf wrote

Half these drugs are basic comfort (analgesics) and half are kind of failing organ support (liver and diabetes).

Panadol - acetaminophen
Insulin - diabetes
Brufen - Ibuprofen
Disprin - aspirin
Calpol - acetaminophen again?
Tegral - epilepsy, diabetes pain related
Nimesulide - nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug - cramp pains, including diarrhea and menstrual cramps
Hepamerz - liver failure treatment
Buscopan - Wikipedia
Rivotril - extreme anxiety

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_ja9weej wrote

Replying to SuspiciousStable9649 (#2,076,345)

Hyoscine butylbromide

>Hyoscine butylbromide, also known as scopolamine butylbromide and sold under the brandname Buscopan among others, is an anticholinergic medication used to treat crampy abdominal pain, esophageal spasms, renal colic, and bladder spasms. It is also used to improve respiratory secretions at the end of life. Hyoscine butylbromide can be taken by mouth, injection into a muscle, or into a vein. Side effects may include sleepiness, vision changes, dry mouth, rapid heart rate, triggering of glaucoma, and severe allergies.

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wildfire98 t1_jaahlj9 wrote

When reading this I didn't have a good grasp of how the financial crisis can affect a health care system, I found an interesting article that stated the following...

"The economic crisis has reduced the available hospitals’ funds, including reimbursement rates, donations, and income (Greece and the US). Moreover, hospitals’ patient care losses increased due to the reduction in ambulatory care and elective surgeries. Furthermore income from non-patient care activities decreased after the economic crisis. All these factors increased out-of-pocket and informal payments. Policies and measures such as hospitals closure, admission of fewer patients with acute conditions by hospitals, limiting drug prescription, and patients being forced to supply consumables and drugs from outside the hospital have led to an indirect increase in patients’ financial burden."

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EvenHair4706 t1_jabgzrn wrote

Why does it seem there is never a shortage of cigarettes?

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chillcroc t1_jacdgxq wrote

Replying to winterwar45 (#2,095,227)

Seriously? Pakistan refused help. Pakistan also closed down the road to facilitate trade and now India is not interested. India right now has sent a lot of aid to Syria , who the west is not helping and Turkey.

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comeonwhatdidIdo t1_jaci139 wrote

Butto famously said "We will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own(nuclear bomb)..."

Well time has come for Pakistan to understand consequences of huge military budgets, giving safe haven for terrorists, encouraging religious fundementalist and not investing in civilian infrastructure and educational institutions while at the same time have overpopulation.

Pakistan is going to have a grim future. Americans have turned their back, after ISI chief went to Afghanistan when the Taliban took over. China will buy Pakistan infrastructure but they now realise what's the point of buying something from someone who has nothing. Saudi might be the only country that might still help Pakistan.

The irony in this is Pakistan has been shouting for decades that India wants to invade them and destroy them. At the same time they dug their own downfall.

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pk10534 t1_jaddvkg wrote

Replying to chillcroc (#2,101,000)

Are you joking right now? The US alone is giving millions to Syria in aid. It’s just very hard to get aid into Syria and to make sure it’s going to the right places. Straight up falsehood

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pk10534 t1_jado5r1 wrote

Replying to chillcroc (#2,115,543)

I didn’t say that, somebody else did. I’m just refuting the notion that the west has somehow ignored Syria, when in reality we are all trying to figure out how to get aid to affected Syrians and have donated millions to them

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pk10534 t1_jadpft6 wrote

Replying to chillcroc (#2,116,186)

What that leaves out is that many of the affected regions of the earthquake are controlled by rebels, not the Assad regime. So by landing aid in Damascus, Assad controls where it goes and can easily refuse to give rebel-held territory aid. It is more complicated than just “west bad”, the west is hesitant to send aid over that will not actually reach the people it is intended to

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FoxHaunting6257 t1_jadzyxw wrote

So they can afford to build and maintain nukes, attack India and Afghanistan and murder their own Christians but they say they can't afford basic medicines...

They need to revisit their priorities.

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