In response to: India’s Premier Medical Institution in the Dock over Infant Deaths
Reading this article is rather troubling considering over 40 babies have died in the past two years in India due to new medicines and therapies. The infants for these trials were "randomly selected" despite the fact that some are claiming that the doctors picked infants from poor families. I believe the allegations that infants were chosen based on wealth and family status. The Dr. in charge of these studies claims that the deaths were not caused due to unsafe drugs or negligent practices and that the babies died because they were suffering from high risk and serious disease conditions. If this is true, then the doctors should not have been using the infants who had diseases or other high risk conditions. Just because an infant is sick or at risk does not give anyone the right to test that baby with new medicines or treat it any differently than other infants. The only special treatment that the sick infants should be receiving is treatment that is already know to help cure and help aid the infants back to 100% health.
