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A quick search found a pack of 100 disposable syringes in Pakistan for PKR 1100/- which is less than USD 4. That's 4 cents per syringe. Seems quite reasonable
by SanjayMehta 6mo ago
A quick search found a pack of 100 disposable syringes in Pakistan for PKR 1100/- which is less than USD 4.
That's 4 cents per syringe. Seems quite reasonable to me.
Seems they don't have economics as an excuse.
https://ailaaj.pk/products/apple-disposable-syringe-5ml-100s https://ailaaj.pk/products/apple-disposable-syringe-5ml-100s
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- Loughla 6mo agoThat could have been said without the massive racism. It's less about the money and more about the logistics of transporting and stocking these goods in a country that doesn't have decent basic infrastructure. See?
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- alex43578 6mo agoYou can't characterize a country where: - dozens of people just got HIV from syringe reuse - that ranks 168th out of 193 countries in HDI - ranked 136th out of 182 countries in corruption as backwards, underdeveloped, or corrupt. /s
- CGMthrowaway 6mo agoA month's wage in Pakistan is about $125. So each syringe would feel like a cup of Dunkin does to many in the USA
- bastawhiz 6mo agoI have orders of magnitude more cups of Dunkin each year than I get injections at a doctor
- garbawarb 6mo agoBut Pakistanis don't.
- bastawhiz 6mo agoThe point is that if the analogy of a $0.04 syringe is supposed to be as expensive as a cup of coffee, it's still not expensive even if you do it often. Maybe they have too many injections. Either way we have a bunch of kids with a disease that can kill because someone thought something as expensive as a cup of coffee was too expensive.
- crazygringo 6mo agoWhich would be entirely reasonable cost as part of a healthcare visit. When people complain about healthcare costs, they're not complaining about things that cost the same as a cup of coffee locally.
- wildzzz 6mo agoMedian household income in US is $83k so 0.04/125 * 83k is about $26, much more than cup of coffee. If you're sticking like 15 kids a day with the same needle, that's like $400 a day saved.
- MagnumOpus 6mo agoYou are comparing monthly individual wages in Pakistan to annual household income in the US. That results in your numbers being nonsense.
- kelnos 6mo agoI feel like spending the cost of a crappy cup of coffee to get a clean needle so you don't get HIV is money well spent.
- leonidasrup 6mo agoThere is strong correlation between life expectancy and GDP per capita. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-gdp-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-gdp-pe... Been poor is your biggest health risk. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/ https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/