Lack of beds in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) is not the only problem in treating coronavirus patients . And is that a few days ago, both the shortage of medicines and their high price are an obstacle to combat this pandemic that has caused a health crisis around the world.
According to patients and family members, it is an odyssey to get the medications they are prescribed. Even, there is no longer much difference if the victim is hospitalized or in proper isolation at home.
For example, a 45-year-old educator fears for the life of her 74-year-old father, who since last Tuesday has been bedridden in one of the beds of the Medical Leader Clinic (Chiclayo), after presenting symptoms of COVID-19 ago ten days. This fear responds to the shortage of drugs such as hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and ivermectin in the aforementioned medical center.
Since May 6, the primary school teacher has searched for medicines to treat her father, who has not been diagnosed due to a lack of rapid and molecular tests in the city.
“ They told me to come back the next day and that just there, they were going to attend to me. I went then, and the only response I had was an address and a cell number, ”he said .
He added that these data were from clandestine locations, where the medications exceeded the real cost. “I spent 322 soles on hydroxychloroquine, because they prescribed 14, that is, 23 soles each. (…) I feel that in vain we contribute to the State because they have forgotten us , ”he claimed.
[-] TrumpLyftAlles | 1 points | May 16 2020 23:22:10
Lack of beds in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) is not the only problem in treating coronavirus patients . And is that a few days ago, both the shortage of medicines and their high price are an obstacle to combat this pandemic that has caused a health crisis around the world.
According to patients and family members, it is an odyssey to get the medications they are prescribed. Even, there is no longer much difference if the victim is hospitalized or in proper isolation at home.
For example, a 45-year-old educator fears for the life of her 74-year-old father, who since last Tuesday has been bedridden in one of the beds of the Medical Leader Clinic (Chiclayo), after presenting symptoms of COVID-19 ago ten days. This fear responds to the shortage of drugs such as hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and ivermectin in the aforementioned medical center.
Since May 6, the primary school teacher has searched for medicines to treat her father, who has not been diagnosed due to a lack of rapid and molecular tests in the city.
“ They told me to come back the next day and that just there, they were going to attend to me. I went then, and the only response I had was an address and a cell number, ”he said .
He added that these data were from clandestine locations, where the medications exceeded the real cost. “I spent 322 soles on hydroxychloroquine, because they prescribed 14, that is, 23 soles each. (…) I feel that in vain we contribute to the State because they have forgotten us , ”he claimed.
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