Best regards

Vikas Gupta

-----Original Message-----
From: Amit Dua
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: FW:

This is not a regular chain mail. This is from a very close friend of
mine and its shocking to know a real incidence like this

>
>Extremely Important

>From:
>Vinod M. Sheth,
>8-A, Woodlands,
>67, Peddar Road,
Mumbai - 400 026.

>Resi. Nos.: 23871725/23864006

>01.10.2003
>
>To
>
>Near and Dear Ones,
>
>With profound grief and sorrow I wish to inform you that my son, Ketu
>Sheth, aged 34 years, passed away on 08.09.2003. He was admitted to Sir
H.
>N. Hospital on 14.08.2003. For the first time it was detected that he
was
>suffering from Kidney Failure. Kidney Biopsy showed that he had
extensive
>damage of both the kidneys. Doctors opined that this condition may also
be
>caused due to heavy metal poisoning. This made us think whether in the
past
>he had taken any unusual medicine. We came to know that he had taken
some
>herbal preparation given by Dr. Anand Mandhane, M. D. (Ayu. Med.),
Chief
>Physician, Executive Director, at Brightland Holiday Village, at
>Mahabaleshwar when he had visited that place few months before. This
>
>medicine was prescribed to him for his complaints of Tonsillitis and
>Constipation. Though the medicine he had taken was
>
>not available, we knew the name and address of the doctor who had
>supplied
>the same. So we telephoned him to send the same medicines again without

>informing the doctor about the current problems of my son. This doctor
sent
>the same medicines
>
>through courier which was delivered to us at a Hotel in Mumbai. We got
>the
>medicines analyzed and were informed by experts that it contained
extremely
>high levels of metals, like lead, arsenic, mercury and copper.
>
>The Laboratory Tests of these powders and Tablets showed the following
>results:
>

> Permissible Limit for Human Consumption
>
> Actually found in Powder and/or Tablets
>
>
>
> Arsenic
>
> 0 to 1 PPM
>
> 7.5 PPM (Stain method)
>
>
>
> Lead
>
> 0 to 1 PPM
>
> 11.64 PPM
>
>
>
> Cadium
>
> 0 to 1 PPM
>
> 1.08 PPM
>
>
>
> Copper
>
> 0 to 1 PPM
>
> 1617.00 PPM
>
>
>
> Mercury
>
> 2 PPM
>
> 4,000 to 7,000 PPM in 2 different sets of
>
>tablets.
>
We strongly suspect that the medicines taken by my son might have
contained
the same and these metals could be the possible reasons for this Kidney
damage, though we do understand that it is very difficult to establish
the
same.

>
>We have all the respect for all the branches of medical therapies.
However,
>we would like to appeal to all of you to be careful while taking
medicines
>which are branded as "Herbal Medicines", "Native Medicines", "Faki",
etc.
>which are claimed to be without any side effects. Please get them
checked
>from experts before taking them.
>
>We have lost our son and any amount of investigation is not going to
bring
>him back. However, as it is our social obligation, we feel that such
>incidences should not recur. Therefore, we earnestly request you to
spread
>this message to maximum number of people by verbal persuasion,
letters,
>faxes and E-mails.
>
>If you need any clarification, please feel free to approach us.
>

>Best Regards,
>
>For the Ketu's Family in Extreme Grief

>Vinod Sheth
>
>Aggrieved Father.

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