Posted on 04/14/2020 12:01:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Carving the path for India’s foray into medical diplomacy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent out the first consignment of drug hydroxychloroquine to 13 countries, including neighbouring nations and the United States. Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is keeping an eye out for the drug requirements of Gulf countries to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
It is believed that by stepping up to bail out nations facing a shortage of life-saving drugs during a global health crisis, India would be able to establish itself as a reliable international power.
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Huge consignments of hydroxychloroquine and paracetamol have either been dispatched or will soon be sent to multiple "friendly nations" across the globe. According to the Ministry of External Affairs, the countries were selected on a first-come, first-serve basis. These include Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Maldives, Israel, Seychelles, Brazil, the United States, Spain, Bahrain, Germany, Canada Mauritius, the Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom.
While some of these shipments have gone out as “gifts” to neighbouring countries to help them tide over a crisis, the others have been sent out as commercial exports under specific agreements.
The drug HCQ has traditionally been used to treat malaria and has proven effective in relieving symptoms of auto-immune diseases like arthritis and lupus too. There are studies that claim the drug can also inhibit SARS in vitro, while several nations have reportedly found the drug helpful in treating COVID-19 patients when used in combination with other medicinal drugs.
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India is a great country. So much better than China.
RE: India is a great country. So much better than China.
If you have a multi-party Democratic system, you tend to be more accountable to the people compared to a one party system.
Yeah, seems our help cost us many, many American jobs as 500000 H1Bs were allowed to stay in the US taking American jobs while most other Americans were furloughed. Something passed under the radar that Pelosi wanted.
Curious why all the countries want HCQ, when our media says it doesn’t work.
Gee, maybe the MSM is full of s—t.
RE: Curious why all the countries want HCQ, when our media says it doesn’t work.
The Media already told us why — Because the President of the most powerful country in the world is touting it. Therefore, the uneducated masses of people from all these aforementioned countries WITHOUT USING THEIR HEADS TO THINK, simply blindly listened to him.
I wish what I said was satire,but headline after headline associates HCQ with Trump, adding the word “unproven” to it.
Yeah, us Israelis are an unintelligent lot, blindly following Trump.
ROFLMAO.
HCQ is standard protocol now in Israel, first symptoms.
This is from leftist MSN.
Note that there is no snarky comments or tones regarding HCQ - because it’s India providing it not Orange Man Bad.
I love the Indian people. The ones I knew in the eighties were great friends.
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