translated from Spanish: AMLO says they investigate theft of cancer drugs; promises that there will be abasto

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that there is already an ongoing investigation into the theft of nearly 38,000 cancer drugs, which occurred on October 7.
The representative detailed that the drugs had been brought from Argentina and that they were in a warehouse.
“We had a hard time bringing these drugs, we brought them from Argentina, this is really weird and we’re being robbed of a drug warehouse, so the investigation is being done and I can’t talk about the case any more by stealth,” he said.
López Obrador said that progress is being made in the indeeds and that they will get to the bottom of the case.
“Telling parents that we are constantly trying to provide these services, we are not inhumane, we have feelings, and we know what children and anyone else are suffering if they don’t have the medications,” he said.
He noted that his government’s adversaries are taking advantage of this theft to create a false image of his government, “as if we were insensitive, and we don’t care about the problem, and we don’t.”
Not to mention specific cases, the chair acknowledged that in previous administrations cancer drugs were not well distributed so there was not enough food and that in some cases “even adulterated, it was all business and corruption”.
Last Saturday, the Federal Commission for the Protection of Health Risks (Cofepris) reported the theft of 37 thousand 956 pieces of cancer medicine from the warehouses of the company NOVAG INFANCIA, S.A. DE C.V.
The event occurred on October 7, and according to Cofepris’ health alert, the stolen drugs were manufactured by KEMEX SA Laboratory, and would be distributed by NOVAG.
Stolen medicines are: daunorubicin, fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, dacarbazine, mitomycins, etoposide, idarubicins, cyclophosphamide.
Cofepris added that these drugs cannot be purchased from particular pharmacies or hospitals as they are exclusive to the health sector (Ministry of Health, ISSSTE, IMSS, Semar, Sedena).
He invited the public to file a health complaint in case of detecting an establishment that would put them up for sale.
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Original source in Spanish