| ▲ | SanjayMehta 3 hours 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 |
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| ▲ | CGMthrowaway 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| A month's wage in Pakistan is about $125. So each syringe would feel like a cup of Dunkin does to many in the USA |
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| ▲ | bastawhiz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have orders of magnitude more cups of Dunkin each year than I get injections at a doctor | | |
| ▲ | garbawarb an hour ago | parent [-] | | But Pakistanis don't. | | |
| ▲ | bastawhiz an hour ago | parent [-] | | The 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. |
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| ▲ | crazygringo an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Which 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. |
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| ▲ | mothballed 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | Loughla 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | That 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? | | |
| ▲ | mothballed 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I must be so intensely racist that I have no idea what I even said there that was racist. | | |
| ▲ | alex43578 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You 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 |
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