Pills and dissaster stricking in India??

One or two days ago I received an e-mail from a dutch friend of mine about a dissaster that had struck him. Now this email was send to his whole list of friends and just people he knew... and for obvious reasons.
He had lost his stack of pills while travelling on a bus trough India.
Now this friend of mine is hiv+ and everybody knows, if correct that is, that one needs to swallow these little bastards on the dot every day. Now he still has a pile of pills, but the amount lost resembles a good month, so what to do?
Well, one doesn't panick because one goes to hospital or docter nearby and simply request prescription and voila, with help of ones medical insurance the pils will reappear like magic.
Well, thats at least how things should be!
But not in India.... and thats why I relate this story here, because there are more countries like India and when one is hiv+ and likes to travell, one should be able to improvise or deal with such eventualities.
He could get all his pills, but except one... seems like India has same 'conflict' going as some other countries have with other pharmaceutical companies and ergo, never for that particular pill an application for approval has been made and so that pill is not available in that country!
Now he asked his friends, etc.... that if anyone came to India within the next couple of weeks, he or she could collect that specific pill at his hospital and bring it with them and that he or she would get a statement in which it said for whom and why....
in short it was a general cry for help, otherwise, so he wrote, he had to fly back to The Netherlands in time so not to miss swallowing these little bastards/friends ;-)

I for one send him a reply & advice:
A. One can also use DHL or an equivalent parcelservice like FedExs, and they deliver to where ever the front door might be, and just within a couple of days at that!!;
B. Check if neighbouring countries can provide the pills you need, saves a lot of money compared with having to fly back to the netherlands;
C. Ask people, or NGO's in the country you are, or neighbouring countries if they can help you out with an emergency supply (and often they can do just that!!, and definitly after a handsome donation which they really can use very well)
D. Those organisations can also provide assitance for receiving pills send from abroad;
E. IN a real emergency, just fly out to the nearest 'western' style country and get your medication or treatment you need with all the proper fascilities.

As a (former) activist one can get creative and at least it prevents outright pannick if one spells out a series of options one has in case of emrgency.

Now I happened to have a customer in my bar at precent who talked to me about his ailments and medication, and he uses same pills as my dutch friend travelling trough India, so then one plus one is two I thought. because this customer of mine has plenty with him and allready said he was prepared to leave his surplus behind in case I could make someone happy with them in case of need.... and well, my dutch friend turns out to be just such a case!

So, now my dutch friend gets help from all the way from Phuket/Thailand, and I will use DHL and the pills will be dropped at where ever he stays, hotel , guesthouse, B&B or whatever. and if all goes to plan, for minimal cost of 2000 baht, between 40 and 50 euro's.

Now only thing we ned is a flawless excecution and my dutch friend can continue his travells trough India.... thanks to the modern wonders of..... internet ;-)