E-DRUG: All India Drug Action Network: Open letter to WHO
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ALL INDIA DRUG ACTION NETWORK (http://aidanindia.wordpress.com/)
*57, Tejaswinagar, Dharwad 580002, India, Tel +91- 836- 2461722, (drdabade@gmail.com)
* A-60, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016, India, Tel: +91-11-26512385 (mirashiva@gmail.com)
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OPEN LETTER
16th February 2009
To,
Margaret Chan,
Director-General of WHO,
Geneva
Dear Chan,
e were delighted to read your comments in the 'The Lancet' dated 15th January 2009, titled "Primary health care as a route to health security". We quote here some of the statements that have been made by you that "This approach to health is people-centred, with prevention considered as important as cure. As part of this preventive approach, primary health care tackles the root causes of ill health, including in non-health sectors, and offers an upstream attack on threats to health. As the report1 noted, better use of existing interventions could prevent 70% of the global disease burden."
But unfortunately you do not seem to implement what ever you say, as is evident from earlier correspondence that one of our AIDAN members had with you. This with regard to Drug Action Forum – Karnataka's (DAF-K) letter dated 2nd September 2008, regarding the "revelation that for every four children in whom pneumonia is prevented, two children develop asthma because of the vaccine"- the pneumococcal vaccine that is being promoted by WHO globally and in India. A copy of the letter sent by DAF-K is attached with this e-mail for your reference. (Access the letter at:- http://www.mediafire.com/?z5nh3hetmfi)
Your personal assistant Alison Porri, has acknowledged having received DAF-K's letter on 4th September 2008, with a promise to "to acknowledge receipt of this e-mail". And that "Your letter will be carefully reviewed and a response will be forthcoming".
But unfortunately DAF-K has not heard from your office. The issue was discussed at the 14th November 2008 of AIDAN and members expressed grave concern over the issue. Your eerie silence is creating suspicious in the mind of the health conscious members of AIDAN and that often you do not mean as you wrote in the The Lancet, mentioned above. (This is for your information that AIDAN is larger and national body, where as DAF-K is a state level organisation and member of AIDAN along with several other nation wide constituents).
We the under signed express grave concerns about this whole issue and that if by 27th February 2009 we do not hear from you then many of us will forcefully walk into the WHO office, at Delhi and demand for the same information.
Hoping to hear from you soon,
Yours truly
Dr Gopal Dabade, (drdabade@gmail.com)
Dr Mira Shiva, (mirashiva@gmail.com)
Mr. Srinivasan S, LOCOST, (sahajbrc@youtele.com)
Dr Anurag Bhargava (anuragb17@gmail.com)
Dr C Sathyamala (csathyamala@gmail.com)
Dr Jacob Puliyel (puliyel@gmail.com
Dr Gopal Dabade,
57, Tejaswinagar,
Dharwad 580 002
Tel 0836-2461722
Cell (0)9448862270
www.jagruti.org
www.aidanindia.org
www.daf-k.cjb.net