[e-drug] Make medicines child size campaign (10)

["ozma fazal" <ozma.fazal@gmail.com>]

E-DRUG: Make medicines child size campaign (10)
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I'd like to share experiences related to inavailability of Child size
medications.

Cost is the biggest issue we face when a child requires 1 ml of a 100 ml of
parentral Metronidazole, ciprofloxacin, Amphotericin and the likes.

I have seen parents pay 34,000 rupees (around 500US $) for a vial of
Survanta [beractant]  of which they require only 1/4 of the medicine and waste the rest (no safe and re-use data).

We see our selves struggle with anesthetics like Propofol and Ketamine again
coming in adult dosage and quantity. It's really time some work was done on this front, especailly considering the third world, already burdened by impoverishment and disease .

Either this, or some practical work be done on stability of these medications if drawn and preserved in  syringes for multiple use purpose, or better still, work be done by the manufacturers for multi dose, long stability prepartions.

Ozma Fazal Khan
Staff Pharmacist/Training Coordinator
The Aga Khan Hospital (Pharmacy)
Karachi, Pakistan.
"ozma fazal" <ozma.fazal@gmail.com>