US EditionColombia’s Health System Teeters With Medication in Short Supply
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Laboratories, distributors, government and EPS: This is how the drug chain in Colombia fails
Colombians have seen in recent months how the images of patients suffering from the lack of medicines for diseases such as diabetes, osteoporosis or cancer multiply. Dispensaries who assign them their Health Promoters Entities (EPS), insurers who manage the system with public funds, tell them again and again that there are no drugs. No one denies the crisis, but President Gustavo Petro and the EPS accuse each other of being responsible. There is…
Patients after transplant cannot find vital drugs: this is how they can die
Organ transplant patients are facing difficulties when trying to obtain vital medicines. The State Medicines Control Service says that one medicine has been out of stock since December due to supply problems and assures that it will appear in pharmacies next week. The president of the Gyvastis Association points out that if the necessary medicines are not available, patients can die.
Colombia’s Health System Teeters With Medication in Short Supply
The crisis in Colombia’s health system has reached “critical” levels as it fails to provide patients with access to medical services and medication, the government’s independent human-rights watchdog agency warned.
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