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The stories are shocking, children with cancer that their parents do not have for cancer drugs that have not been delivered to public hospitals in the country for weeks, transplanted people who do not receive the necessary medicine so that the body does not reject the new organ, older adults who get tired of walking through social security pharmacies to see if they can already fill the precious medicine to control diabetes or hypertension.

This week in Meganoticias we have documented the sad reality of the lack of medicines and vaccines in the country, that in the face of the catastrophic figures of the covid in Mexico, patients with other diseases were taken to the background, waiting for consolidated purchases. of medicines in accordance with the new Acquisitions Law, which allows the direct purchase of medicines and medical equipment abroad without bidding, and that the new parastatal company that will be in charge of the distribution of medicines in the country is organized by David León Romero , who left the civil protection department to organize the distribution of drugs, which could take weeks and perhaps months.

The disappearance of Seguro Popular on December 31 of last year left more than 50 million Mexicans benefited in a state of vulnerability, with the promise that the new Institute of Health for Well-being would give them what they need, treatments and medicines, However. , This has not happened, the efforts were focused on attending the covid pandemic where the results are catastrophic with 60,000 deaths, leaving the sick of hundreds of families who saw them and are seeing them black to their fate in order to obtain their relatives ‘Medicines, for which they have had to resort to public collections, personal loans, sell part of the family assets, is the alternative of many to provide medicines to their relatives, while the government has a sub-exercise of 14.5% in the purchase of drugs this year according to a report by México Evalúa, which is inadmissible and even criminal.

One more challenge for the government that adds to the pandemic, the economic crisis, the crisis of violence, the challenge of distance education, the application of the rule of law, the reduction of impunity.

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