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Medcinies at concessional rate for a needy family?

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magnet Original post #1
May 24, 2014 at 11:28 PM
Well i know a family where the lady suffers from kidney trouble.Monthly she needs to take 3 injections of Erythropoietin(10000 iu) (Generic name)(Its a very high dosage) plus atleast 8 oral medicine daily.Its almost 4000 to 5000 medical expense.But family earns around 8000 .They take Vintor -10000IU (Product name) which costs 2100 MRP. per dose.But since they are registered with this people
*www.jivanjyotdrugbank.org/contact-info.htm

They get the drug for Half the rates.

But still its really expensive for the family to continue the same.

I wanted to know are there any NGO which provide free medicines or at-least where one can get free oral medicine at-least .It will be really helpful for the family.I know in Gujarati Jains there are medical institute where such charity happens but i just have heard same.But have no idea.The family have all prescription and really needy.Their son is in 12th standard and in another 5-6 year will start earning as he is a good in studies.

Also any docs here.

I saw there are 2-3 alternative at healthkartplus which costs 1400-1600. Since vintor cost 2000 and it gets financed at half rate.The alternative may turn into 600-800 per dose if the bank source same.But will that do?I hope generically both are sameLike wepox and renocel.
srkmish
srkmish #2
May 24, 2014 at 11:45 PM
These things really sadden me. One of the gatekeepers in my building asked me for a 2000 rs advance for the vehicle washing duties as his father's health was failing and he needed medicines. Just the tone in which he was almost pleading broke my heart. I gave him 1000 advance.

Hope some medical students/doctors here can shed light on this query. What is up with the humongous prices charged for medicines. We are living in such a shitty world where healthcare for the poor is being neglected. How are they supposed to pay for rising costs of medicines.