[This tonic cost 35 Rupees (£1.95) in India…]
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This tonic cost 35 Rupees (£1.95) in India in 1981. For the same price an Indian family could have brought all the nutritious food shown here. THE drug companies hav been posing recently a as saviours of the nation' balance of payments, a well as being the founds tion of all health. This time Ly book shows in forthrigh terms just how little righ they have to make suc claims.
Dianna Melrose start by showing that the major ity of the health problem of the Third World sten from malnutrition, poo public hygiene and lack o knowledge. In curing thes problems, medicine wil play a minor thoug important) role, just as the lid in the West over thi ast 150 years.
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A coordinated attack o1 reveral fronts will be neces sary - an example of thi reing found in the Left zoverned Indian state o Kerala. Kerala has the bes nealth statistics of the 1: Indian states, even thoug! ts health budget is thr second lowest in India. Thi 8 because of its greate social and edúcationa levelopment; the highe status of women, greate ates of literacy, etc.
The activities of thr nultinational drug com anies, however, onl linder this task. Thei production is geared solel! o the demands of loca narkets, with the resul
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no:115 January 13 1983