translated from Spanish: parents of children with cancer

Parents of children with cancer who protested in previous days about the lack of a drug for the treatment of minors met on Thursday with Federal Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer, who apologized to them and promised them that it will be guaranteed medicine, at least until December.
Last August 27, Alcocer said that the lack of methotrexate medication was no urgency, that the dose could wait a few days and that another substance could even be used.
But now, at the meeting with the parents, they said, the federal official apologized several times to them for their statement.
“He said it was not his intention to say what he said, that he had made a mistake and that he was very sorry, and we as parents taking away our pride and pride, because this is not of pride or pride, we accept that heartfelt apology,” Israel Rivas Bastidas said , father of a four-year-old girl who is ill with leukemia.
The deabasto, Alcocer mentioned, was due to a confusion between different sectors, although there is now a commitment that Methotrexate and other medicines to treat cancer are guaranteed the remainder of the year, at the Children’s Hospital of Mexico ” Federico Gómez”.
With information from Notimex
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Original source in Spanish