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More attention to Chagas needed.
Health Chacao forgot Chagas patients. Affected by this disease reported abuses by the medical staff and lack of medicines for treatment. The VCU has provided free medical care steadily but more help needed.
The 146 affected by Chagas disease outbreak in 2007 in the municipal school Chacao Andres Bello, still battling the disease with difficulty, not to receive the assistance needed by the mayor or other national government entities.
Fundachagas representatives, nonprofit institution composed of infected, ensure that the discovery of the infection were assisted Chacao Health, where they received medical care and medications needed for treatment, but this did not last long.
Rosa Ribas, representative of an infected child and member of the foundation, says that since last year are attended with difficulty, they are mistreated by the staff of outpatient drugs are scarce and have to wait months before being granted a query.
Added to this, the health status of patients is exacerbated by side effects of one drug, which was shown to replace one that had been prescribed at the beginning of treatment.
This has caused kidney disease in nature, neurological, liver, spleen as well as problems and a general lack of control in the immune system, forcing them to resort to other medical tests.
THE UCV groped
Before the municipal neglect, Hector Bastidas, Fundachagas president, said the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the Universidad Central de Venezuela has worked consistently providing medical care, but still need to be provided examinations X-ray and cardiac These studies help determine cardiac arrhythmia or irregular heart growth, the main symptoms of the condition
Not cheap
treatment of Chagas disease has a monthly cost of up to 3 000 bolivars, including medicines, medical examinations and consultations, a very high price that most can not afford those affected, and that has forced them to seek help relevant government agencies, through trades and letters that have gone unanswered.
After the demonstration held last week at Avenida Francisco de Miranda, Deputy Director of Health Chacao, Liliana Vergara, undertook to organize workshops in order to determine how the mayor will attend the infected.
Ministry does not help
Hector Bastidas reported that ravuconazole and Cotanazol drugs created to dislodge the parasite that causes the tropical disease have not been licensed in the country.
Therefore, calls for the national government to discuss the drug's approval, and thus can have the ultimate cure of Chagas disease in Venezuela.
Although no official information has, Rosa Ribas said in locations such as Chichester, Valencia, San Cristobal and the center of Caracas, there have been 250 cases, approximately. Most of them have sprung up in schools. As Is tried to confirm these data with government agencies but it was not possible.