Twenty days go since Alida Vera does not take her two daily metformin pills -prescribed media for diabetes.It begins to decompens up frequently, has dizziness and even tachycardia.Its tour of pharmacies adds about eight."Neither alive nor dead with my pills. It's an odyssey," says Alida.
You must move in public transport in search of the medicine, which adds difficulty.The shortage of medication also puts diabetics to give races.It becomes a concern to see that the medicine ends and not have at hand the next box, according to Aida.Its diabetes is type 2 and the medicine depends that it does not advance.
In Marabin pharmacies hundreds of people enter daily asking metformin or glibenclamide, in any of their presentations, without favorable results.The available presentations are mostly imported from Colombia, with prices that considerably exceed the cost of the drug produced in the country.Only a metformin blister of 15 capsules of 850 milligrams, has a value that ranges between 3,500 and 6.00 bolivars.
Alida must usually take two daily pills, so this dose would last only one week.Ramón Fernández, in charge of a SAAS Pharmacies Branch, located on Santa Rita Avenue, explained that the 30 -capsule metformin box has a cost of 800 bolivars, but it has not reached the shelves of the medicines of the medicines of the medicines of thecity."People come every day and ask. We can only offer the imported at a higher cost, because it is the only thing that comes to us. There are people who do not take it to see the cost, but we cannot do anything if we do not haveThe availability of the national, "says Fernández.
"They arrive failures" when pharmacies receive some endowment of medicines for the treatment of diabetes, it is minimal.From two to five boxes it is the maximum, which does not last in the shelves or half a day, and only those people who run lucky are taken."The endowment always fails, it is very little for so much demand, because people enter and leave all day in search of their diabetes medications and with what comes to us we fail to cover or 80 % of those patients," he explainedAndrea Chacín, seller of a pharmacy located in the center of Maracaibo, whose name pre -reserved.
To prevent medications from falling into the hands of resellers, experts like Farma opted to create a frequent client database, with diabetes, hypertension and other type of chronic pathologies, which they call once the medications reach the shelves."We want to avoid the bachaqueo of medicines for this type of disease and that is why we verify who are the people who really need it and separate their boxes for three and four months," said Keidy Franco, in charge of Farma well in the La Lago sector.
There are no figures the latest figures published by Fenadiabetes, in 2014, handle between 1.8 and 2.1 million diabetic patients throughout Venezuela, with a greater incidence of type 2 diabetes. The World Health Organization (WHO), has in itsPage A section where the situation of each country is provided in terms of diabetes and all kinds of pathologies.Venezuela appears in most of the data with the acronym ND (not available), which indicate that the country did not respond to the survey.Official figures and updates on the incidence remain void.
