Prevalence of G6PD deficiency versus oxidizing drugs: a survey in the tertiary care hospital
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The third world countries spend 30-40% of their total health budget on drugs, some of which are useless and expensive and double their expenditure every 4 years, while, GNP (gross national product) doubles only every 16 years. 15 That’s why now the individual concerns for potency or cost of treatment, and even more precisely, efficacy or safety of a drug is being rationalized as overall risk-benefit ratio on individual level or costaffectivity analysis on the mass scale.
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