MUMBAI: When 20-year-old Gauri R was wheeled into the ICU of a south Mumbai hospital on Wednesday, it was an emergency that was in the making since July, when a life-saving drug, D-penicillamine became scarce across the country.
Gauri suffers from Wilson’s disease, a genetic condition in which the body is unable to flush out excess copper. She was diagnosed
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with the disease seven years back when doctors found she had extensive liver damage or cirrhotic liver. A daily three-tablet dose of D-penicillamine has since kept her healthy till August. “We thereafter started rationing strips we had, taking a tablet or two instead of three she was prescribed,” said her father, Satish R.
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