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 Children swin around a traffic signal light on a flooded street in Jakarta on Monday. Indonesian rescuers, police and troops in inflatable boats helped evacuate Jakarta residents stranded in severe floods that have killed 29, as the number left homeless approached 350,000.//AFP
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Health Security office defends lifting of patent protection
The National Health Security Office (NHSO) is defending a Public Health Ministry decision to infringe patent protection of some drugs, saying lives must come before corporate profit.
NHSO secretary general Dr Sanguan Nitayarumphong said the ministry acted to ensure access to medicine where lives were at risk.
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