Too much didn't read... but I remember when I was in India 15 odd years ago that you could get antibiotics over the counter without a doctor's prescription. Is that still the case?

rEvolutionist wrote:Too much didn't read...

Less reading or even more reading.

cheers. sounds a bit worrying.

I was unaware that antibiotics were available in enough quantities in India for "resistance" to even be an issue.

rEvolutionist wrote:Too much didn't read... but I remember when I was in India 15 odd years ago that you could get antibiotics over the counter without a doctor's prescription. Is that still the case?

yes and thats what it has led to. No health care system, no attempt at proper health care system to be precise. for most part, no education system, the way to evaluate any person literate is if the person can read his or her name in which ever language and thats it. No proper sanitation system.

but we are supposed to be a democracy, i doubt that very much.

In any case, the govt reacted to the perception of it being named after new delhi first, put pressure on all the doctors associated with the person who made the discovery to cut their contacts or to turn down their funds.

Now after man months they shamelessly claim that they have detected this . But they are still making committees.They havent banned over the counter anti-biotics.

the reason why people do that is not just because they are unaware, but also because there arent enough doctors for many and people cannot wait for days together. They go and ask in medical shops and they inturn out of a certain empathy to the poor or just carelessly give it away to the middle class.

Meanwhile, India's poverty measurement has been put down to 32 rupees a day.1$=abt 45-50 Rs. it isnt enough for any Indian. you wouldnt even be able to access our daily consumption. Finally after they tried to indulge in this statistical jugglery to make it appear to decrease poverty and were lambasted by the media, they claimed it is only the low- limit and not poverty level.

Meanwhile, the mineral ores are being sold in most states where they exist to foreign companies illegally, when they are caught, the politicians claim "the truth will come out", no wonder people are cynical.

and if one blames congress for this as they were in power for most part, we get labelled as supporters of hindutva or threatened that it will lead to the support of bjp.
And finally when people fast, then they ignore you but if the person fasting becomes famous then the people who fast to introduce a law to check corruption which was differed for 42yrs, you are called to be against democracy and parliament.

Yeah, I think there are enough Indians on here and with India now becoming the tiger it is, that it's time for a big discussion on India and its poverty and growing national wealth.

rEvolutionist wrote:Yeah, I think there are enough Indians on here and with India now becoming the tiger it is, that it's time for a big discussion on India and its poverty and growing national wealth.

if this gene spreads to other bacteria, if this spreads, then India will learn the importance of health care at a great cost, India is completely unprepared. So, I disagree with the idea of India becoming a tiger, everything depends on informed calculated decisions. When you do few things and leave a lot of other things then it might hurt you more in the long run or when catastrophe strikes.

nojesusknowpeace wrote:I was unaware that antibiotics were available in enough quantities in India for "resistance" to even be an issue.

Ouch.

I think you must be suffering from the "that other country poorer than mine contains people who are all poor and have nothing" stereotype.

Antibiotics are cheap as dirt. An Indian man who makes his living by pulling people around in a cart makes more than enough money to buy some penicillin when he gets sick.

Dudely wrote:

nojesusknowpeace wrote:I was unaware that antibiotics were available in enough quantities in India for "resistance" to even be an issue.

Ouch.

I think you must be suffering from the "that other country poorer than mine contains people who are all poor and have nothing" stereotype.

Antibiotics are cheap as dirt. An Indian man who makes his living by pulling people around in a cart makes more than enough money to buy some penicillin when he gets sick.

India has always been good at providing things in a cost effective manner, that isnt the problem, the problem is that one must use it judiciously, but that awareness is the job of the govt, one cant expect people to understand all that without being informed, that is the reason we have rules.