NEWS: 1100 die, mostly children, for want of $1 Vaccine

The worst outbreak of Japanese encephalitis ever seen in this remote area of India and Nepal is overwhelming hospitals in a region where the health care budget is about 13 cents annually per person. This puts the $1 per dose vaccine against the deadly disease far beyond the resources of the average individual.



The Uttar Pradesh state has these outbreaks every year, but this year's is especially severe for some reason. The Indian government needs to devote adequate resources to abating this problem and caring for those affected.

Another preventable tragedy

Is it a case of neglect? Missplaced funding?

In any case, it's just awfully sad that for the sake of something so simple - a $1/shot vaccine - people are dying.

Ya, youd think the INDIAN GOVERNMENT could swing the $1200 bucks with all the revenue from Dell, IBM and the rest. Hmmm.....should we start silk screening shirts for them to? Or are they not as important?

Ive been tracking this in the medical forum. The 1100 dead is just from government run hospitals :shk: It does not account for deaths in private hospitals or villages etc.

What a tragedy I know with the increase of salaries from outsourcing, why dont they mandate each Corporate official to donate 50 cents per person, who benefitted from these aquisitions?You can't ask the Indian people to pay for it, they only make about 30 dollars a month. Where's the NAACP on this one? Maybe instead of using resources to pursue litigious activities, maybe they could do something that's actually worthwhile. Not that they haven't done alot to benefit alot of people, but I think they also do alot of over dramatizing. The WHO, also needs to step up to the plate on this one, if they can fund scientists to create superbugs, they can use some of that to help children for once, one million dollars isn't a big sum when you are corporations like this, but for someone who makes 20-30 dollars a month, it is.