Social security without provision. In the hospitals of the Social Security Institute (IPS) the shortage of supplies and medicines has persisted for months, the insured complain on social networks.
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After the IPS announcement about the regularization of anti-flu pills, there were more reports of shortages. The list of missing, according to complaints on social networks, are calcium, cetirizine (antihistamine), telmisartan (antihypertensive), salbutamol, blood glucose test strips, citicoline for neurological treatment, capecitabine, which is an oral tablet for treatment of breast cancer and colon cancer, lamotrigine (anticonvulsant), zolpidem, which is used to counteract insomnia, ibuprofen, budesonide (corticosteroids), among others.
Ana Esquivel told on Twitter that due to the lack of the oncological drug capecitabine 500, they must buy the box for G. 6,000,000. Those who do not have economic resources postpone the medical prescription.
For her part, the insured Marcia Cabrera asked “cancer drugs please”. “They are lacking, the patch for example and oral chemo,” she stressed.
With the panorama of shortages, the most worrying is in relation to cancer patients, because the drugs have high costs, which, in case of not being able to acquire, medical treatment is delayed or postponed, the patients said.
Other basic ones are added to the expensive inputs. Diego Torres wrote that there is not even calcium in the Campo Vía Peripheral Clinic in Capiatá. “Speaking of remedy. Last time mom went to her traumatologist and they didn’t even have calcium in Campo Vía, they are no longer ashamed, ”he sentenced indignantly.
MORE COMPLAINTS. The story continues with other items that are missing in some social security pharmacies.
“There is nothing, not even salbutamol. The truth is, it’s a disaster, they care more about beautifying their garden and not about the lack of medicines,” Sonia González complained.
An insured asked the head of the IPS, Dr. Vicente Bataglia: Citicoline and calcium for when Bataglia?
In the midst of the economic crisis due to the pandemic, the IPS does not supply hospitals, which means that the insured must buy the medicines, an out-of-pocket expense that the pension does not replenish, others complained.
“And those who already bought? They are deducted more than 300,000 monthly and they must also be buying anti-flu. You guys refund, right? Incredible the theft that there is, ”said Laura Cabral.
The series of complaints and complaints flood social networks. For example, Adriano Alonso said that IPS does not even have antibiotics. “Shall we talk when they prescribe antibiotics? They don’t have that. Invest in medicines for the insured”.
Darío Yudis also asked when there will be a supply of essential medicines for medical treatments. “When are they going to enable cetirizine, ibuprofen, telmisartan of 80 antihypertensive?”.
RARE LISTS. Added to this scenario are the unusual requests for alkaline batteries, shavers, sheets and even gowns to access certain imaging or laboratory studies, according to the accounts of the insured.
Apart from the purchases of supplies and medicines made by the insured due to the scarcity in the IPS, others reported the most unusual requests to access cardiological and imaging studies.
For example, Belén Benítez said that she had to buy an alkaline battery to have a Holter placed, which is a device that is worn for 24 hours and that stores the electrocardiogram. “If you are a man, you also have to bring a razor.”
Benítez said that if he went with the right ticket, he could not have bought the battery, therefore, they were not going to place the device on him. “Three months of waiting was going to be nothing.”
Make sure you have items
The IPS Press Department reported that the only missing items are the cancer drug capecitabine 500 mg tablet and zolpidem, which is used to counteract insomnia, and calcium. Capecitabine and zolpidem are “with orders pending delivery by the supplier companies. Actions: summons to deliver what was contracted, ”says the statement. It adds that the items cetirizine, telmisartan, salbutamol, citicoline, blood glucose test strips, lamotrigine, ibuprofen are available. Some items on this list have contractual coverage from 9 to 36 months, but the IPS pharmacies are empty, they denounce.
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