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Since the beginning of Arogya Parivar, we have improved access to medicine for 42 million
patients
in 33,000 villages.
Similarly, in China, despite rapid urbanization, millions of people still live in nomadic communities, making it difficult to educate
patients
on critical health issues, particularly disease prevention.
Novartis sought the most effective channel to reach these patients, and ultimately found that teaching children about health and hygiene in schools works best.
Moreover, those who buy care – insurers and
patients
– are unlikely to have the information necessary to choose the safest and most effective treatments.
And they are demanding to know why essential medicines disappear before they reach
patients.
While the researchers who originally published those studies may have profited from increased funding and recognition, the
patients
who need new cancer treatments gained nothing.
But drug patents and prices are not the main – or even a major – obstacle to patients’ access to medical care in India.
Imagine doctors at a perpetually overrun hospital refusing to perform triage on casualties, merely attending
patients
as they arrived and fast-tracking those whose families made the most fuss.
On the other side of the Atlantic, in Guatemala, the United States Public Health Service (PHS) is deliberately infecting prisoners and mental
patients
with syphilis in another “experiment” aimed at replacing the ineffective drugs used by soldiers during the war that had just ended.
There, “the US government’s health service had deliberately infected 427 Guatemalan men and women, prisoners and mental patients, with syphilis.”
There is no suggestion that Third World
patients
are deliberately being made ill when research is outsourced – unlike in the Guatemalan case – but that does not attenuate the inherent vulnerability of populations lacking basic medical care or experiencing epidemics.
People with diabetes are three times more likely to fall prey to TB.Diabetes can also make
patients
less responsive to standard TB therapies and elevate the chance of relapse after the disease has been treated.
Local healthcare clinics started bundling testing and treatment for the two diseases; and, as anti-viral medications have become available in Africa, the rate of TB infections in HIV
patients
has begun to fall.
Antibiotic resistance, the WHO cautions, is now present in every country, putting
patients
at risk of worse clinical outcomes and at greater risk of death, while increasing the burden on health systems.
As medical advances and technological developments have helped cancer
patients
in high-income countries to live longer – to the extent that some forms of cancer have effectively become chronic conditions – those in low-income countries continue to die young.
This would make its
patients
healthier, drug makers more profitable, and India better off, because employment increases.
Telemedicine applications will allow physicians to treat
patients
who are hundreds of miles away.
They complain about year-long waits for eye operations and hip surgery--a direct result of a Social Democratic reform of 1994 that abolished the right of
patients
to seek alternative care at public expense if they are not treated within three months by their regional council.
In Liberia, 60% of markets are now closed; in Sierra Leone, only one-fifth of the 10,000 HIV
patients
who are on anti-retroviral treatments are still receiving them; and Guinea’s government is reporting a $220 million financing gap because of the crisis.
Economists were like doctors telling
patients
that, while some wine may be beneficial, too much is certainly dangerous – without being able to tell them how many glasses per day they were allowed.
Hospitals were flooded with
patients
showing symptoms of damage to the central nervous system.
The agents traditionally used to speed up excretion of inorganic metals from poisoned
patients
turned out to make symptoms of methyl mercury poisoning worse rather than milder.
Officials in these countries are striving to identify sick
patients
in the community and to triage them to regional facilities that have the expertise to provide appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
Patients
admitted to ICUs become colonized rapidly with hospital bacterial pathogens, which often are resistant to antibiotics.
On one occasion, my colleagues and I were invited to a public hospital in a developing country to investigate why the death rate in a pediatric ICU caring for
patients
with dengue hemorrhagic fever was so high.
Nonetheless, a bone marrow transplant unit, financed largely by Japan, had just opened in the same hospital – placing the most vulnerable
patients
at the mercy of deadly infections.
Other medical fields have refined the diagnostic process to the point where computerized laboratory tests have virtually replaced clinical examination of
patients.
These can be obtained only through careful examination and direct questioning of
patients.
Of course, computer programs can now process data derived from
patients'
symptoms and generate psychiatric diagnoses.
But the psychoanalytic approach, with its reliance on personal interaction with patients, led to a broad conception of pathology.
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