Genotype One: Indian Sofosbuvir and Chinese Daclatasvir

I have written previously of UK Doctors’ fear of  prescribing generic Hep C medicine (genericnophobia) and have recently had correspondence with a London GP and a Welsh patient consulting a liver specialist in Wales that sheds some light on the source of this strange psychological condition, genericnophobia, which affects more than 90% of British medical practitioners.

The source appears to be the legal department of the British Medical Association, the Doctors’ Union, who appear to be advising British medical practitioners that they are entering “a legal minefield” if they prescribe India generics. 

Really???? That is strange because British doctors prescribe their British patients India generic medicines every single day as about 40% of all medicines prescribed in the UK are made in India.

The big difference here is that prescribing these particular Hep C Indian generics will save countless lives but at the same time deprive huge and powerful multi-national pharmaceutical companies of a small portion of their already obscenely massive profits.

Has Big Pharma has got the British Medical Association running scared? 

It looks like that to me.

Has there been a legal minefield in Australia where the legal system is essentially the same as in the UK and doctors are now routinely prescribing generic Hep C medicines for their patients? The simple answer is no... quite the opposite, people who have been sick for years are now well again. People who were desperate for a cure are now being cured. 

So where is the legal minefield? 

Or is the British Medical Profession being manipulated by a Big Pharma inspired fear campaign while British people with Hep C are growing sicker and dying?

What happened to a doctor’s primary concern being the health of their patients?

Make up your own mind about what is happening but it looks like the BMA is being manipulated  to me!!!

Yet there is hope.

Here is a news article from the Imperial College London, one of the world’s most eminent medical colleges. It describes the terrible suffering caused by the current pricing policies on the new Hep C medicines and refers to the great results happening in Australia because medical practitioners in Australia helping their patients get access to the Indian generic medications. 

Australia might have lost the Ashes but we are winning the battle against Hep C. (that’s a cricket based comment for readers who have never heard of cricket or the Ashes)