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893 TURKS KILLED IN DRUG EXPERIMENTATIONS
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 15, 2011 - 17:31 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Drug experimentations conducted by pharmaceutical
giants have killed 893 Turks, Hurriyet Daily News reported citing a
publication in The Independent.
Turkey is listed sixth of the countries that report the most deaths
due to experimentations, with India taking the lead at over 1,700
victims who lost their lives during experiments run by American,
British and European pharmaceutical companies.
The Independent's investigation revealed plenty of gruesome details
including experiments cancelled following abuses of illiterate or
uninformed subjects in need of either money or treatment.
The total number of world deaths caused by pharmaceutical
experimentation runs as high as 120,000. The issue is reportedly caused
by tight regulations in countries like the United States and England,
which push the pharmaceutical companies to direct their studies to
countries that have looser ethical and technical regulations.
Pfizer, Bristol Myers, PPD, Squibb, Amgen, Bayer, Eli Lilly, Quintiles,
Merck, KGaA, Sanofi-Aventis and Wyeth are some of the known companies
to conduct such experiments overseas. India's Health Minister Ghulam
Nabi Azad said 10 companies had paid compensation of a comical 3,000
pounds each to the relatives of only of 22 victims in India. A girl
of 13, Sarita, was also a known victim of such experimentations.
According to Vatan, the Turkish Ministry of Health, however,
claimed Turkey was one of the "most regulated" countries on issues
of pharmaceutical experimentation, stating that each experiment was
overseen by authorities on grounds of ethical concerns and paying
subjects was a strictly forbidden procedure, reported.
Yet the head of the Clinical Pharmaceutics Foundation Dr. Cankat
Tulunay disagreed with the Ministry of Health. Tulunay told Vatan
that supervisions and investigations were lead by people with limited
knowledge and competence, with some investigations remaining only
on paper. Tulunay further warned that if things continued as they
were, Turkey might lose citizens by the thousands to unregulated
experimentations.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 15, 2011 - 17:31 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Drug experimentations conducted by pharmaceutical
giants have killed 893 Turks, Hurriyet Daily News reported citing a
publication in The Independent.
Turkey is listed sixth of the countries that report the most deaths
due to experimentations, with India taking the lead at over 1,700
victims who lost their lives during experiments run by American,
British and European pharmaceutical companies.
The Independent's investigation revealed plenty of gruesome details
including experiments cancelled following abuses of illiterate or
uninformed subjects in need of either money or treatment.
The total number of world deaths caused by pharmaceutical
experimentation runs as high as 120,000. The issue is reportedly caused
by tight regulations in countries like the United States and England,
which push the pharmaceutical companies to direct their studies to
countries that have looser ethical and technical regulations.
Pfizer, Bristol Myers, PPD, Squibb, Amgen, Bayer, Eli Lilly, Quintiles,
Merck, KGaA, Sanofi-Aventis and Wyeth are some of the known companies
to conduct such experiments overseas. India's Health Minister Ghulam
Nabi Azad said 10 companies had paid compensation of a comical 3,000
pounds each to the relatives of only of 22 victims in India. A girl
of 13, Sarita, was also a known victim of such experimentations.
According to Vatan, the Turkish Ministry of Health, however,
claimed Turkey was one of the "most regulated" countries on issues
of pharmaceutical experimentation, stating that each experiment was
overseen by authorities on grounds of ethical concerns and paying
subjects was a strictly forbidden procedure, reported.
Yet the head of the Clinical Pharmaceutics Foundation Dr. Cankat
Tulunay disagreed with the Ministry of Health. Tulunay told Vatan
that supervisions and investigations were lead by people with limited
knowledge and competence, with some investigations remaining only
on paper. Tulunay further warned that if things continued as they
were, Turkey might lose citizens by the thousands to unregulated
experimentations.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress