Guadalajara Jalisco.- While the Executive Branch of Jalisco assured that the State does have a supply of medicine against childhood cancer, a child under 15 died yesterday at the Juan I. Menchaca Civil Hospital because of the shortage of the medication that her doctor prescribed against leukemia that I suffered
The teenager was diagnosed with leukemia and when she was in intensive care, the doctors asked her parents for a medication that was not in the hospital of the hospital.
“There was no medicine to improve the quality of life or relieve pain, it is the reality, there was no medicine. We have the request letter that day that says: ‘We do not have the medicine,'” said Alejandro Barbosa, director of the Red Nose civil association.
Hospital authorities acknowledged that at the time the medication was needed they did not have it, however, another of similar characteristics was administered, so they ruled out that the death was a consequence of the shortage.
“He received the treatment scheme that he should receive for the time he should receive, it was not because of absence, for lack of any medication that this girl died,” said Jaime Andrade, director of the OPD Civil Hospital of Guadalajara.
She said that the girl arrived seriously at the hospital in January and there she was diagnosed with leukemia. Although he received the initial chemotherapy, his condition worsened until he had a septic shock.
The medicine that they did not have at that time, he admitted, is one of the amines family, but it was replaced with one that does the same function: raising the pressure.
Andrade acknowledged that until yesterday there was a shortage of 10 drugs such as cyclophloracil, cytarabine, vincristine, vinblastine, bleomycin, dacarbacin and amifostine.
“These medications are having a hard time finding them because they are imported,” he admitted.
However, in the afternoon the State Executive Branch said in a statement that there is no shortage of drugs in Jalisco and that the 357 pediatric cancer patients treated in both Civil and Zoquipan are guaranteed treatment.
After the statement and although in the morning he assured that the Government had breached his word, Barbosa indicated that the problem of shortage ended, so they will stop the fundraising campaigns and today they will deliver the drug they bought with what was collected.
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