https://hesperian.org/2009/12/16/health-activist-dr-gopal-dabade-recently-came-to-berkeley-to-speak-on-the-ongoing-struggle-against-swiss-pharmaceutical-comp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=health-activist-dr-gopal-dabade-recently-came-to-berkeley-to-speak-on-the-ongoing-struggle-against-swiss-pharmaceutical-comp Knowledge for Action - Action for Health Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:52:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.9 https://hesperian.org/2009/12/16/health-activist-dr-gopal-dabade-recently-came-to-berkeley-to-speak-on-the-ongoing-struggle-against-swiss-pharmaceutical-comp/#comment-52 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:26:53 +0000 http://hesperian.org/2009/12/16/health-activist-dr-gopal-dabade-recently-came-to-berkeley-to-speak-on-the-ongoing-struggle-against-swiss-pharmaceutical-comp/#comment-52 In our teaching hospital at Sevagram (Maharashtra) recently we were able to get imatinib for patients with blood cancer(chronic myeloid leukemia)at Rs.180 per tablet- i.e. Rs. 5400 (about 110 $) per month! We need to ensure that patients with blood cancer are not denied effective drugs simply because a pharma company wants to make money.

]]> https://hesperian.org/2009/12/16/health-activist-dr-gopal-dabade-recently-came-to-berkeley-to-speak-on-the-ongoing-struggle-against-swiss-pharmaceutical-comp/#comment-51 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:25:49 +0000 http://hesperian.org/2009/12/16/health-activist-dr-gopal-dabade-recently-came-to-berkeley-to-speak-on-the-ongoing-struggle-against-swiss-pharmaceutical-comp/#comment-51 The write-up has come up very well.Drug Action Forum Karnataka an NGO of which Dr.Gopal Dabade is president and I am the joint secretary has given call to bycot drugs manufactured by Novartis.I am a medical practitioner and I am not prescribing any Novartis drugs since the time the campaign was launched.It is good that it has come up on the Hesperian foundation weblog so that it can reach large chunk of the community.

]]>