Nowadays, medical treatment is getting beyond people`s budgets not only in undeveloped countries, but even in developed world.
Believe it or not, but millions of people in poor countries die from simple curable illnesses such as flue or different inflammations every year.
Their lives could be saved if they had money for medicine.
Who is responsible for their lives?
A common opinion is that drug companies should supply medicines to poor countries at reduced prices.
At a glance, medical companies can sell their production in particular countries cheaper than in developed ones.
Prosperous entrepreneurs wouldn`t smash if they didn`t make a high profit from some part of production.
However, we cannot put the responsibility of someone`s poverty on medical companies bodies.
The drug production is a business with its incomes and expenses.
Above all, drug companies pay taxes and salaries as other companies as well.
Additionally, they spend millions dollars on researches and experimentations every year in order to save our lives.
Not to mention that they need to renew equipment in accordance with modern medicine requirements.
In conclusion, this is a complex issue with no clear answers.
I tend to believe that there are another ways to solve the medication problems in undeveloped countries and I don`t agree with this common opinion.
It seems to me, that the UN should find the solution, perhaps, by supplying free simple medication to poor countries.
November 2013
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