Tracking The Fake Malaria Drug Threat

[Thaising]

Preah Vihear province - in northern Cambodia, close to the Thai border - is a lush jungle region that used to be a stronghold of the Khmer Rouge; a remote, underdeveloped province. It also has a high rate of malaria.

In the small town hospital is Jai Prok, a thin 63-year-old. When he first became ill he tried to treat himself. He bought malaria medicine from a hawker who came to his village but it simply did not work.

And such an experience is not unusual, according to Solang, the man in charge of the hospital's medicines.

"There's no way patients can tell the difference between fake drugs and the real thing," he says.

"Even some doctors can't tell. They all look the same."

Continue here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6692431.stm

I wouldn't be surprise if some of these fake drugs are find here in Thailand

Edited June 8, 2007 by Thaising