Superbug - Pharma - Medical Conspiracy

Aug. 24, 2010 - PRLog -- Meditours Immediate Press Release             August 23/2010
There has been a lot of talk about the Indian – Pakistani “superbug” recently.  They say there are no antibiotics yet, but even as of yesterday it was reported that a person who had the so called “superbug”   had indeed left the hospital in Brampton – cured.  (CTV NEWs)  

The flogging this story in the media and press is unconscionable.  The media have never said exactly where in India/Pakistan this superbug is coming from!  This is akin to saying there is plague in Canada (and hence no one goes outdoors due to plague).  As a matter of fact plague WAS discovered in Saskatchewan and everyone carried on with their normal lives.  Even W Nile disease was discovered in Kelowna, BC Canada, and yet no one stayed inside for fear of getting bitten by a W Nile mosquito!  

There are a billion people in India – and many diseases which are not known in Canada and the US occur there.  These billion people seem to thrive and live normal lives. “V M Katoch, Secretary of Health Research, Indian government - said that he was surprised that a research paper linked it with India as they should know it was a biological phenomenon.”

Hospitals all over the world have problems in hygiene and India is no different.  In fact we have had unclean hospitals right here in Canada (Kamloops – where unclean instruments were found).  All one can do is ensure with the doctor the surgeon that protocols regarding cleanliness are followed.  

'There are potential complications to any procedures, anywhere they are done.'— Dr. Mark Joffe, Alberta Health Services

The Indian Health Ministry came out swinging against the Lancet study Thursday, according to published reports in that country's media. The Times of India quoted a Health Ministry statement as saying the report was tainted by funding from the European Union and drug companies.

Laboratory tests have confirmed that a female patient who was treated at the William Osler Health System facility in Brampton had been infected with the so-called NDM-1 superbug. The patient is no longer in hospital.  Dr. Arlene King, Ontario's chief medical officer of health said the patient "likely" acquired the infection in India after receiving medical treatment there.

King said the patient was treated but it is unclear if the infection cleared up on its own or with treatment. However, the general public is advised to follow infection-control practices such as hand-washing.

New Delhi: India on Thursday described as “totally irrational” British scientists linking a new superbug resistant to antibiotics to this country and said it was responding to an alert issued by Britain in this regard.

V M Katoch, Secretary of Health Research, told reporters that the government would soon draft a reply to this after a meeting of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), a nodal agency under the Health Ministry.

S S Ahluwalia (BJP) said: “When India is emerging as a medical tourism destination, this type of news is unfortunate and may be a sinister design of multinational companies” to defame the Indian medical sector.”

The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), a nodal agency under the Health Ministry, is meeting on Thursday and “we would soon draft a reply to this,” Secretary, Health Research, V M Katoch told reporters.

He said the Ministry will examine the issue in detail but it was “unfortunate that this new bug, which is an environmental thing, has been attached to a particular country which is India in this case.”

It is very unclear why the news media and in particular CTV and CBC are flogging this news story in Canada.

There are cases even in Canada where a virus has been a superbug. Examples include in 2007 where a patient was in the hospital for a month (3 – weeks in ICU- in a coma) for getting treatment for pneumonia in Kelowna BC. They were unable to find the proper antibiotics/dosage for three weeks.  Was that a superbug??  This was 2007.  This case was in Kelowna Canada!  The patient also got C Difficile after this stay in the hospital.  

The risk of going to get a procedure done in India is no worse now  than at any time in the past.
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