Juan Ramón Alegre is a 55-year-old disabled man (with muscular dystrophy) who suffers from chronic leukemia, a very serious disease that he has not received treatment for four months because of his social work (Incluir Salud) does not offer help He is the drug you rely on to continue living.
“Because I suffer from malnutrition, I am a thin person, weighing 47 kilograms. This week I was hospitalized with pneumonia because I did not take the appropriate medicine,” Juan Ramon told LT7.
“Four years ago, I was diagnosed with chronic leukemia. I was on treatment as normal until it was stopped in June. I had to file a claim with the social worker and show the appropriate documentation from my doctor stating that my health was at risk, and there was no Medication They sent it to Buenos Aires and then they sent me the medication, but it was only a small box, for a month. It was one capsule, to be taken every day. There were 30 capsules in the box. Instead of like It was true that they sent me three pills as usual, and they only sent me one,” he explained.
“When I complained here they told me there was nothing they could do, that in Buenos Aires they had the medicine but they did not send it. In a pharmacy in Corrientes the medicine cost half a million Pesos,” he explained.
“My doctor is worried because my defenses are so low that I got pneumonia. Without treatment, I’m on the verge of death,” he said desperately.
Finally, he said that Melisa Gómez Tonsich, coordinator of Incluir Salud subsidiary Corrientes, had promised to resolve the issue by Monday, October 2, but again there was no progress. “My relatives came to me and told them that we must continue to wait because the remedies are in Buenos Aires and they must be sent,” he concluded.