Why does EGeen conduct pharmaceutical research in Eastern Europe but not in the US, for example?
Due to bureaucracy. Lawyers have made things too difficult in the US. Do this and you face these threats, do that and that’s what lies ahead – the patient dies first before they can read through the contract! Who pays for drug research? The American Drug Administration dictates 70% of all this business. Americans pay for drug development in the entire world. Which illnesses is there no cure for yet? There’s not much being done about medication for Parkinson’s disease, for example, because it kills “only” 5 000 000 people a year in the US. If you go and ask someone money for a Parkinson’s medication, they will tell you to leave! 20 million people are suffering from depression – now we are talking! It’s a cruel world – no one wants to work on a cure for some tropical illness. Malaria, for example – the capitalists want to know what the relevant market value is. Well, 20 million people every year die of malaria! No, I was asking about the market value, don’t make things complicated! There
