Bitter Pills:Medicines & The Third World Poor

PRODUCT Single dose injection containing 300,000 units of procaine penicillin G and 100,000 units of benzylpenicillin No Yes No STREPTOMYCIN Single dose injection containing equivalent of SULPHATE 1 gram streptomycin Injection sulphate Yes Yes No SECLOPEN Injection 9. FORMULA- FORMULA- PRODUCT TION ON TION ON RECOMMENDED UK WHO LIST FOR WITHMARKET (1979) DRAWAL, BANGLADESH EXPERT COMMITTEE MAY 1982 DESCRIPTION CORTICOSTERO1DS 10. BETNELAN Tablets Each tablet contains 0.5 mg betamethasone Yes Yes No 11. BETNESOL-N Eye Ointment 0.1% betamethasone disodium phosphate with 0.5% neomycin sulphate in a bland paraffin base Yes No Yes 12. BETNESOL-N Eye, Ear & Nose Drops Cf. 1% betamethasone disodium phosphate with 0.5% neomycin sulphate Yes No Yes 13. BETNOVATE-N Cream 0.1% betamethasone 17-valerate with 0.5% neomycin sulphate Yes No Yes 14. BETNOVATE-N Ointment 0.1% betamethasone 17-valerate with 0.5% neomycin sulphate in a bland paraffin base Yes No Yes PHARMACEUTICALS 15. ADEXOLIN Liquid Containing vitamin A 12,000 units and vitamin D 2,000 units per ml Yes No Yes 16. ANCOLOXIN Tablets Each tablet containing 25 mg meclozine hydro chloride and 50 mg pyridoxine hydrochloride Yes No No 263

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