At the height of the pandemic, a guy I know lost his father to COVID-19. Vaccines were not yet available at the time to the general public, but there were drugs being used for treatment, with some verified measure of success.
Those drugs, as we know, were expensive. But the guy is well-off and the family could afford to have the father confined in one of the top hospitals in Metro Manila.The son, who contracted the virus while watching over his father and also needed treatment, wondered why the patient wasn’t given the drug that was touted at the time to be effective for surviving COVID.
Bell-Kenz has a multi-story office building, the Bell-Kenz Tower, in Diliman, Quezon City. Its slogan is, “We make life better.” In the depths of global suffering from COVID, the Indian pharmaceutical infrastructure was developed enough to produce vaccines for both domestic and global consumption – one mass-produced by the Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. for Big Pharma AstraZeneca, and the other an indigenous one, Covaxin, developed by Bharat Biotech.
The controversy has grown to such proportions that the government found it necessary to issue this circular last week: “The Department of Health strictly reminds all doctors, nurses, medical professionals and DOH personnel in all medical centers, hospitals and medical facilities regulated by the DOH that the acceptance of gifts, grants or emoluments from biopharmaceutical companies or members of the industry, in exchange for any act benefiting such company or member of the industry is unethical.
The effects of El Niño phenomenon, or the long dry spell in our country continue to wreak havoc in our normal daily living. Our neighboring countries Thailand and Bangladesh are likewise not spared from this... The Philippines’ two largest conglomerates are powering the country’s robust economic growth this year and in the coming years.
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