Health admits delivery of incomplete kits to patients with covid-19: what medicines should they give?
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- 14 Jul 2022
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The Ministry of Health has assured that it delivers drug kits to treat covid-19 on an outpatient basis to patients who test positive and their closest contacts; however, the reality is different.
The country registers a dizzying increase in coronavirus infections and more and more patients go to swab centers to take the test; however, after testing positive, they do not receive the proper medications, often without prescriptions or instructions.
According to Eliú Mazariegos, director of the Comprehensive Health Care System of the Ministry of Health, on average the cost of these kits is Q50.00, but he acknowledged during a summons to Congress that they have complaints that they are not being delivered completely.
He added that they do not know why this is due, since both the Ministry of Health and the Medication Accessibility Program (Proam), whose cost of the kit is between Q20 and Q45, and the Health areas have resources to acquire the medications. .
These drugs must be delivered to each positive person and their closest contacts, but in a tour carried out by Noticiero Guatevisión and Prensa Libre in two swab stations in Guatemala City, it was verified that not even half of what the portfolio indicates is delivered. Read More...
