translated from Spanish: 1,602 children with cancer have lost their lives, accuse

Budget cuts for cancer treatment and medicines were already claimed by 1,602 deaths, as early as December to date, according to the latest report by the Mexican Association for Helping Children with Cancer (AMANC).
AMANC warns of “deficiencies in the health sector” and “socio-economic and cultural difficulties of families” in the face of suffering.
The report, from 11 December, also reported, until yesterday, 4,000 new cases detected and 3,204 cases diagnosed in the late stages.
It notes that, according to figures from the Ministry of Health, every 90 minutes a new case was diagnosed in Mexico and every four hours a minor died from this cause.
With the complaint that 672 days of scarcity or absence of treatments, medicines and chemotherapy processes for cancer patients are already met, relatives of patients protested yesterday in front of the Hospital de La Raza and the national headquarters of IMSS, where they held a meeting with their owner, Zoé Robledo.
In a long meeting, the federal official signed five agreements with families: “to monitor the timely granting of cancer treatments of paediatric patients” at the Institute; “development of a pattern of paediatric patients”; “if requested, the protocol shall be granted by the treating physician”; the “creation of a working group with central authorities, which will meet weekly, on Thursday at 6 p.m., with parents to resolve cases and follow up on agreements.” “On marrow transplants, services deferred by the pandemic will be restarted.”
With a blanket and T-shirts with the “#UnDíaMásSinQuimio” claim, family members demanded that health authorities “comply with the supply of all medicines, because there are many promises and in the end complete treatments are not guaranteed.”
With information ElFinanciero

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