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- From: giand@opencon.com (Deepak S. Gianchandani)
- Subject: Re: How do you take medication into a foreign country?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.211303.2500@opencon.com>
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- Organization: OpenCon Systems, Inc.
- References: <s9hq#ng@lynx.unm.edu> <1ebk4gINN8ks@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:13:03 GMT
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- In article <1ebk4gINN8ks@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cstadgs@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R J Tinsley) writes:
- >
- >Just a brief comment, as this is my first post, but from my (5 months)
- >experience of travelling in Africa, reliable supplies of major American/
- >European brand-name drugs were legally available over-the-counter
- >in all the large cities (anti-biotics, codiene etc.).
- >
- >So if the medication you require is not too obscure, how about just asking
- >your GP for a list of the drugs you need, along with suitable alternatives,
- >and purchasing them over there?
- >
- >Bob
-
-
- I know that what Bob is stating is correct, I'm a diabetic,
- and Immigrant from India, so we travel there a lot. I would be a
- little concered by buying medicine over in "3World" nations, as they
- are governed and regulatted differently. My father lost his luggage
- and only had a few days supply of Insulin on him, and I contacted the
- Medial Assist, part of GOLD Master Card, and they told me where he
- could get medication there. He had to buy it in the BLACK MARKET
- becuase the American version could not be sold to him only the Indian
- version -- so from this please be carefull, AFTER all this is medicine
- for your life. (Again this pertains to 3rd world countries,
- specifically India, Pakistan).
-
-
- Good luck, and as other's have already said to CARY Valid
- perscription, and enough medicine in your HAND luggage to last
- 10 to 14 days (lost luggage, I also distribute medicine between the
- two luggage pieces just to be sure and having a higher
- probability of atleast getting one pieace of luggage to land with me).
-
- Enjoy your trip.
-
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