Tehuacán, Puebla /
Parents with children diagnosed with leukemia in the city of Tehuacán will join the demonstration of this day at 10 am before the Ministry of Health (SESA) in the city of Puebla, in the absence of chemotherapies at the Children’s Hospital Poblano (HNP), where they were informed that there is no date as to when these medications will arrive.
Diana Iris García Cruz, director of the Association Help Us Help Children with Leukemia in Tehuacán, reported that parents were notified by the medical staff of the hospital about the lack of medication to continue with cancer treatment, a situation that ” they are worried because they should not have interruptions so that their health is not aggravated. “
The director also said that parents “are desperate for the lack of chemotherapy, because they know that their children’s lives are put at risk by not applying the medication they regularly receive every three months and who went to request care, it’s because that deadline was met. “
Therefore, he revealed that the parents will make a demonstration that will depart from the Hospital del Niño Poblano to the Ministry of Health, a dependency with which they will seek to dialogue and demand the supply of medications that minors need to continue their treatment against cancer.
He also said he did not have a number of minors with leukemia and who need specialized attention, however, said that the figure exceeds 20 cases in Tehuacán.
“One of the concerns of parents is that they lack the financial resources to acquire the drug that is priced at approximately 35 thousand pesos, an amount that they do not have available to use for the purchase of chemotherapy and that way your little ones don’t see their treatment interrupted, “he explained.
Finally, he commented that some children remain up to four days in hospital or require two weekly consultations, which implies expenses for families.
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