Monday, March 15, 2010

Medication Donations Needed, Please!



The teaching for this year's Barefoot Doctors School is over, and now our students are headed home to help the people in their villages. We are still quite short on our funding for medications, but we hope those of you who have been following this blog can help us.
I thought it would be helpful if everyone could see the prices on some of the drugs we are going to be using. This is based on the last two years of pricing data and should be accurate. It does not take much money to help save a life. The drugs are relatively cheap, the Barefoot Drs are eager to deliver treatments, and the need for treatment is extremely great. For most of their patients there is nowhere else to get medical help.
Please search your heart and pray about this. If you are prompted to give, it will be a great help to our Barefoot Drs. Even a small amount can be used to save a life. Here are a few examples.

COST PER TREATMENT/CURE: MALARIA $0.62
COST PER TREATMENT/CURE: MENINIGITIS $2.50
COST PER TREATMENT/CURE: PNEUMONIA $0.25
Yes, that is right. It only cost $0.62 to cure a case of malaria! And just $0.25 to cure pneumonia! That is not just one dose. That is the entire treatment!

There are more details below for those interested in helping meet this need.

To donate any of these medicines, please note clearly on your donation that it is for the Barefoot Doctors program.
You can donate online at the FLC website: http://www.frontierlabourersforchrist.org/
Or you can send your donation to one of these two addresses.
In The USA:
Frontier Labourers for Christ
Barefoot Drs. Program
Kevin Eldredge, Treasurer
P.O. Box 630382
Highlands Ranch, CO 80163

In Canada:
Frontier Labourers for Christ
Barefoot Drs. Program
David Kindy, Treasurer
P.O. Box 194
Selkirk, ON NOA 1PO

Here's the complete list of medicines we need. Sorry the formatting will probably be hard to follow on this blog.
2009 Medicine Unit prices as of 12/12/2008

NO. DESCRIPTION PACKING QTY UNIT/PRICE AMOUNT UNIT/TX COST/TX COST/TX
(BAHT) (BAHT) (BAHT) (BAHT) $ US
A. Medicines

A1. Pills
1 Aluminum Hydroxide 500 mg tablet 2000 0.17 340 40 6.8 $0.21
2 Amoxicillin 250 mg capsules 3000 1 3,000 80 80 $2.50
3 Aspirin 300 mg tablet 2000 0.18 360 10 1.8 $0.06
4 Artesunate tabs 480 12 5,520 1 12 $0.38
5 Buthylscopolamine (Buscopan)10 mg tablet 200 0.99 198 10 9.9 $0.31
6 Chloroquine base 150 mg tablet 1000 0.5 500 0 $-
7 Chlorpheniramine 4 mg tablet 1000 0.03 30 20 0.6 $0.02
8 Ranitidine 150mg tablet 500 1 500 30 30 $0.94
9 Ciprofloxacine 250 mg capsules 1000 1.24 1,240 20 24.8 $0.78
10 Cloxacillin 250 mg capsules 1000 1 1,000 49 49 $1.53
11 Co-trimoxazole 80/400mg tablet 3000 0.4 1,200 20 8 $0.25
12 Diazepam 5 mg tablet 200 0.7 140 0 $-
13 Doxycycline 100 mg tablet 1000 0.65 650 12 7.8 $0.24
14 F.B.C caps 1000 0.32 320 0 $-
15 Ferrous Sulphate 200 mg ANB tablet 1000 0.1 100 60 6 $0.19
16 Folic Acid 5 mg (CP) tablet 2000 0.2 400 100 20 $0.63
17 Hydrochlorthiazide 50 mg (NOT LASIX) tablet 500 0.14 70 50 7 $0.22
18 Ibuprofen 200 mg tablet 1000 0.25 250 20 5 $0.16
19 Mebendazole 100 mg tablet 1000 0.4 400 3 1.2 $0.04
20 Metronidazole 250 mg tablet 1000 0.26 260 80 20.8 $0.65
21 Multivitamin tablet 1000 0.19 190 100 19 $0.59
22 ORS packs 27,9g/750ml sacht 200 2 400 5 10 $0.31
23 Paracetamol 500 mg tablet 4000 0.18 720 10 1.8 $0.06
24 Prednislone 5 mg tablet 200 0.26 52 20 5.2 $0.16
25 Pyridoxine 10 mg tablet 500 0.2 100 0 $-
26 Quinine Sulphate 300 mg tablet 2000 2 4,000 0 $-
27 Vitamin B 1 100 mg tablet 1000 0.23 230 0 $-
28 Vitamin B Complex tablet 1000 0.1 100 0 $-
29 Albendazole 200mg tabs 250 2 500 0 $-
30 Cindimycin 150mg tabs 100 6 600 0 $-
31 Erythromycin tabs 250mg tabs 500 2 1,000 0 $-
32 Fluconazole 50mg tabs tabs 100 7 700 0 $-
33 Vit A 25,000IU tabs 1,000 0.38 380 4 1.52 $0.05
Total 25450

Thanks so much for any help you can send us!

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