Pakistan teen to land in Mumbai tomorrow for treatment

[chandbibi]

Pakistan teen to land tomorrow for treatment


MUMBAI: Thanks to donations from Mumbaikars, Pakistani teenager Saba Ahmed will land in Mumbai on Monday afternoon to undergo treatment for a rare genetic condition called Wilson's Disease.

An article in the August 16 edition of the TOI had highlighted an online crowdfunding campaign called 'Save Saba' that aims to collect Rs 10 lakh for Saba's treatment. At the end of the first week, it generated Rs 2.2 lakh of financial support for Saba, who will board a morning flight from Karachi on Monday.

"Saba is scheduled to get admitted to Jaslok Hospital on Monday," confirmed liver specialist Dr Aabha Nagral, who had treated Saba in April as well. The disease is characterized by accumulation of copper in the body, disrupting the nervous system as well as other organs. Saba left Mumbai after the initial treatment in May, but her condition has been deteriorating rapidly, her mother Nazia had told TOI.

The Bluebells Community, an NGO that had reached out to Nazia and Saba in April and raised over Rs 7 lakh, has once again taken up the task of raising Rs 10 lakh for the teenager's three-month stay. "We had asked Saba to travel to Mumbai as soon as we collect Rs 2 lakh, which would be needed for the initial hospital admission," said Shabia Walia of The Bluebsells Community, adding that she had received enquiries from people who want to give cheques to fund Saba's treatment. Those wanting to help Saba, can do so at http://bitgi.co/savesaba.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...morrow-for-treatment/articleshow/48630717.cms

 

[chandbibi]

Humanity exists everywhere in the world and its good to read such news in times when we are at each others throats all the time.

 

[MS Jan]

Appreciated.
Didnt worth a post. We muslims believe that if you are doing some charity work with one hand let not even the other hand know what you did.

 

[chandbibi]

That is something which applies on an individual level. If the trust doesn't publicize this news how will they get donations?

Appreciated.
Didnt worth a post. We muslims believe that if you are doing some charity work with one hand let not even the other hand know what you did.

 

[khurram_id]

Kashmirio k sath jo slok hy us ki b news lga daiti
aik taraf Kashmirio ko maro or phir un ko bolne b na do
or dosri trf aik news ly kr aa gyi ap k india kitna soft hy

 

[TONIC]

For the sake of Humanity Pakistan has helped India multiple times and recently we evacuated multiple Indians from Yemen....so what!!!

 

[chandbibi]

So what? With this attitude one can dismiss everything in the world... u just exposed what a crass human being u are.

For the sake of Humanity Pakistan has helped India multiple times and recently we evacuated multiple Indians from Yemen....so what!!!

 

[TONIC]

So what? With this attitude one can dismiss everything in the world... u just exposed what a crass human being u are.

I can keep my attitude and you can keep your love for India.......by the way if India is so caring about human beings they should give right to Kashmiris for self determination but this is the point which scumbag like you won't understand.....

Keep on trolling i don't have time to respond back to your nonsense.

 

[chandbibi]

You are a moron in addition to being crass, what has this topic got to do with kashmir by the way?

I can keep my attitude and you can keep your love for India.......by the way if India is so caring about human beings they should give right to Kashmiris for self determination but this is the point which scumbag like you won't understand.....

Keep on trolling i don't have time to respond back to your nonsense.

 

[TONIC]

You are a moron in addition to being crass, what has this topic got to do with kashmir by the way?

Humanity doesn't have any race , religion , cast , creed or culture its universal but Hindu India will never be able to understand that so why to waste my time on scum like you .

 

[chandbibi]

Do you even understand a word of what you have written? Moron if humanity has no religion why are you bringing religion in to it?

Humanity doesn't have any race , religion , cast , creed or culture its universal but Hindu India will never be able to understand that so why to waste my time on scum like you .

 

[TONIC]

Do you even understand a word of what you have written? Moron if humanity has no religion why are you bringing religion in to it?

I never brought religion to Humanity, its bloody Indians who think like that, all we have been asking ever is to give right of self determination to Kashmiris but you Hindus Indians who are filth of this world don't care about humanity, you people are just interested in publicity stunts.

Unfortunately Idiots like you won't understand this point of view.

 

[chandbibi]

This news might interest you since you are living in Australia.... who knows when a"hindu" drug might save your life.


Indian medicine, at 1/100th cost, saves Aussie's life

Less than four months ago, Greg Jeffery was on the verge of getting liver cirrhosis. The 61-year-old Australian, suffering from hepatitis C, desperately needed a drug called Sivoldi to reverse the life-threatening condition.
The problem was, each Sivoldi pill cost over 1,000 Australian dollars and the total treatment regime of 84 tablets would have set him back by around 100,000 dollars.

FILE: India ranks among top 3 medical tourism destinations in Asia

Jeffery, a historian and author, didn't have that kind of money. Desperate to source the drug at a cheaper rate, he landed in Chennai three months ago. There, he not only got the drug but bought it for less than one-tenth the price in Australia.

"The same treatment with the same drug in India is $900," Jeffery told Australian TV channel, ABC.

" Basically as soon as I got home I started taking it. Within 11 days all my liver functions had returned to normal and within four weeks there was no virus detectable in my blood — I was essentially cured," he told the channel.

Jeffery's story, now all over Australian media, has renewed the debate on whether life-saving drugs should be priced so high.

" If you haven't got the money, for a lot of people it's a death sentence — you die," Jeffery told ABC. " I was right on the edge of cirrhosis of the liver, once you get cirrhosis you then open up to tumours and cancer."

And just like the protagonist of Hollywood movie Dallas Buyers Club, Jeffery is now helping other Australians in a similar situation to source the drug from India.

" I get about 40 to 50 emails every day, seven days a week and they are from people who have hep C, whose mother or father has hep C, wife or husband has hep C," he told the channel.

The story is also a vindication of sorts for India's patent regime that is often criticized in the West for not honouring intellectual property rights in medicine.

In January this year, India's patent office rejected the patent application for Sovaldi (chemical name sofosbuvir) from US pharma giant Gilead Sciences on the ground that there was little evidence to show that " minor changes in the molecule" had substantially improved the drug.

What made the ruling possible was a controversial provision in India's law that says patent applications can be turned down if they fail to show sufficient novelty and inventive steps.

The decision opened the doors for Indian manufacturers to copy the drug and sell it cheaply. According to one report, 10 Indian companies were now making sofosbuvir. Two Hyderabad-based companies have reportedly priced their copied version at a retail price of Rs 19,900 per bottle of 28 tablets of 400 mg dosage, which is one-90th of Gilead's price.

Earlier, a study from Liverpool University had claimed that sofosbuvir could be produced for as little as $101 for a three-month treatment course.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...t-saves-Aussies-life/articleshow/48565431.cms

Humanity doesn't have any race , religion , cast , creed or culture its universal but Hindu India will never be able to understand that so why to waste my time on scum like you .

 

[chandbibi]

There are several people in pakistan who want a right to self determination, including occupied kashmir. Get to work on that first, then point fingers at me. And this is an off topic discussion... the biggest irony is your country was created through genocide based on religion.. Now stand there and preach to others.

I never brought religion to Humanity, its bloody Indians who think like that, all we have been asking ever is to give right of self determination to Kashmiris but you Hindus Indians who are filth of this world don't care about humanity, you people are just interested in publicity stunts.

Unfortunately Idiots like you won't understand this point of view.

 

[TONIC]

This news might interest you since you are living in Australia.... who knows when a"hindu" drug might save your life.


Indian medicine, at 1/100th cost, saves Aussie's life

Less than four months ago, Greg Jeffery was on the verge of getting liver cirrhosis. The 61-year-old Australian, suffering from hepatitis C, desperately needed a drug called Sivoldi to reverse the life-threatening condition.
The problem was, each Sivoldi pill cost over 1,000 Australian dollars and the total treatment regime of 84 tablets would have set him back by around 100,000 dollars.

FILE: India ranks among top 3 medical tourism destinations in Asia

Jeffery, a historian and author, didn't have that kind of money. Desperate to source the drug at a cheaper rate, he landed in Chennai three months ago. There, he not only got the drug but bought it for less than one-tenth the price in Australia.

"The same treatment with the same drug in India is $900," Jeffery told Australian TV channel, ABC.

" Basically as soon as I got home I started taking it. Within 11 days all my liver functions had returned to normal and within four weeks there was no virus detectable in my blood — I was essentially cured," he told the channel.

Jeffery's story, now all over Australian media, has renewed the debate on whether life-saving drugs should be priced so high.

" If you haven't got the money, for a lot of people it's a death sentence — you die," Jeffery told ABC. " I was right on the edge of cirrhosis of the liver, once you get cirrhosis you then open up to tumours and cancer."

And just like the protagonist of Hollywood movie Dallas Buyers Club, Jeffery is now helping other Australians in a similar situation to source the drug from India.

" I get about 40 to 50 emails every day, seven days a week and they are from people who have hep C, whose mother or father has hep C, wife or husband has hep C," he told the channel.

The story is also a vindication of sorts for India's patent regime that is often criticized in the West for not honouring intellectual property rights in medicine.

In January this year, India's patent office rejected the patent application for Sovaldi (chemical name sofosbuvir) from US pharma giant Gilead Sciences on the ground that there was little evidence to show that " minor changes in the molecule" had substantially improved the drug.

What made the ruling possible was a controversial provision in India's law that says patent applications can be turned down if they fail to show sufficient novelty and inventive steps.

The decision opened the doors for Indian manufacturers to copy the drug and sell it cheaply. According to one report, 10 Indian companies were now making sofosbuvir. Two Hyderabad-based companies have reportedly priced their copied version at a retail price of Rs 19,900 per bottle of 28 tablets of 400 mg dosage, which is one-90th of Gilead's price.

Earlier, a study from Liverpool University had claimed that sofosbuvir could be produced for as little as $101 for a three-month treatment course.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...t-saves-Aussies-life/articleshow/48565431.cms

How many Indian filthy lives Australians save every year, also post that. All vaccines for snake bites are imported from Australia you filthy animal.

 

[chandbibi]

See your level, you are so low life that i cannot even call you an animal, that would be an insult to god's beautiful creations. Shame on you.

How many Indian filthy lives Australians save every year, also post that. All vaccines for snake bites are imported from Australia you filthy animal.

 

[MS Jan]

That is something which applies on an individual level. If the trust doesn't publicize this news how will they get donations?

The purpose of you posting it here is not to get donations bro.. Thats what i said it didnt worth a post.. But yes publicize it where it needed to get more donations..

 

[chandbibi]

The donations are still open as you can see from the last line in the article... They need to collect 10 lakhs for the complete treatment. My purpose is to let people know that if there is a crisis there is always hope and humanity looks for ways to help others. Someone who has lost hope can get some hope just by reading this.

The purpose of you posting it here is not to get donations bro.. Thats what i said it didnt worth a post.. But yes publicize it where it needed to get more donations..

 

[TONIC]

See your level, you are so low life that i cannot even call you an animal, that would be an insult to god's beautiful creations. Shame on you.

Thanks....still better then you.

 

[chandbibi]

Sorry don't wanna be you.

Thanks....still better then you.