Medicines of different types are in short supply in the health sector, including those for cancer, recognized the former head of the State Health Services, SES, Miguel Ángel Lutzow Steiner.
He indicated that it is not due to lack of resources, the reason why anticancer drugs are in short supply, rather it is due to the fact that at the national level large pharmaceutical companies have not been able to meet the needs of the population due to the pandemic.
Recently, 24 anticancer drug codes and 2,552 pieces were acquired that would be used to treat diseases such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, brain tumors, lung and acute myeloid leukemia.
The last drug deliveries occurred last Thursday, however, he says there is still a shortage of drugs, also because many of these have to be imported from other countries.
“Some are arriving and others very little, there is a shortage of different types of drugs in the health sector, including those for cancer.”
Last Wednesday, he accompanied the Governor of the State, Juan Manuel Carreras López with the head of the National Institute of Well-being, INSABI, to request medicines and material that treats the various diseases in the health sector, but particularly for the oncology issue.
Not only are they reaching out at the national level but they are also allocating state resources to be able to correct what is happening and they are making direct purchases with the approval of the Comptroller General, with the intention of avoiding problems.
“We are seeing that Insabi can buy us medicines and we will also be applying a mixing center that is to send to a laboratory, the prescriptions of cancer patients, they prepare it and send you what is used every week, these are mechanisms that Law allows to guarantee access to treatments “.
For the Central Hospital “Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto” they are seeking to supply the market “there is a lack of money, in March 44 million pesos were allocated, of which 10 were to acquire cancer medicine and 34 for general medicine and medical supplies. healing, and in this month 64 million pesos were allocated to cover a supply of two or three months, both of laboratory supplies, healing materials, medicines and to get ahead with this situation. “
