The blow to families continues due to shortage of medicines in Culiacán

Sinaloa.- Desperation, live mothers and parents who have their children hospitalized in the Pediatric Hospital of Sinaloa, in Culiacán, because the lack of medicines has caused them problems, since they can not always fill the prescriptions they are given. Despair A few months ago, those affected had erupted in anger, because there was too much they had to spend on a daily basis, they no longer knew what to do and began to demonstrate. Prescriptions of up to more than 10,000 pesos ate their pockets daily, and although medicines arrived in the state, they continue to feel the blow in their economies, said Estela García, a mother. Read more: Sinaloa authorities, accomplices of disappearances: Warrior HoundsIn the State, according to the Ministry of Health, there is a 70 percent supply of medicines, so work continues to reduce that missing 30 percent. Héctor Melesio Cuen Ojeda, head of Health, admits that the shortage is still worrying, but that they are working to improve and that they even see progress.” We’re already about 70 percent. Eight trailers arrived, a million pieces of medicines arrived from the 500 keys that are supposed to arrive, more than 400.” Another of the hospitals where they suffer from the shortage of medicines is the Women’s Hospital, where they had 50 percent of the required drug; there they currently report 70 percent availability, so they are still waiting for the Secretariat to send them more keys. Naneth Zamora, director of the hospital, assures that so far they have not had serious problems. For her part, the delegate of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Tania Clarissa Medina López, said that the institute has improved its supply of medicines, in addition to having a reimbursement for all the beneficiaries who had to spend on medicines. We have the program that when people buy it (medicine) they are refunded the bill and paid. You can see it in each medical unit with the unit administrator.” He reiterated that, although there is a refund, it is always sought to make the purchase to the rightholder so that he does not have to spend or worry. Read more: Producers fear price regulation in SinaloaThe positive Reimbursement bills for patients In the IMSS and in several hospitals there is a reimbursement program for the beneficiaries to recover what they spent when buying the medicines that are needed in the hospital. The negative Anguish over the lack of medicines Some families have to worry about the health of patients, in addition to having to buy or look for where to get the medicines from the multiple prescriptions they receive daily. Trailer carrying cardboard catches fire in Elota, Sinaloa

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