Health officials indicated that those responsible for the aforementioned program did not monitor hospitals to learn about the insulin stock, in addition to not having updated statistics of patients with the ailment.The lack of effective control resulted in the aforementioned medicine to be missing in some services, which motivated the complaint of several patients, who even went to the Ministry of Health to meet with the holder of the portfolio.
It was also commented that the PND stopped sending the medications to the services that ordered orders with errors in form, leaving patients to find a solution.The drop that filled the glass was the last bidding of medications worth some G. 30,000 million, which would have been directed to favor one of the suppliers.
Gilda Benítez, currently separated from the position of director of the PND, told ABC Color that she is not authorized to issue any information or opinion regarding the reasons for the intervention, until it completes it.
The Auditor Commission, in charge of Dr. María Auxiliadora Vargas, is composed of lawyer Gilly Colman, of the Anti -Corruption Unit;Mariana Quintana Chemistry, of the Directorate of Strategic Inputs;the lawyer Roberto Ledesma, of the Directorate of Legal Advice, and the pharmacist José Cardozo, of the Directorate of Sanitary Surveillance.
For its part, Dr. Vargas said the intervention is a tool that the Ministry has to be able to perform a verification of the management of any direction."We form an intervening commission to verify the operation and fulfillment of all the program processes, because the ministry wants to guarantee precisely the quality of the service for patients, such as the timely delivery of medicines and the appropriate treatment," he said, withoutDeliver in more details, because only the intervention can be provided.
20 days ago, members of the Paraguayan Diabetes Foundation (Fupadi) demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Health building to claim the lack of insulin in several of the portfolio services.
Vital Service for 238,000
In the country, the prevalence of diabetes is 13.7%.90% of people suffering from this disease have type 2 diabetes and 10% with type 1 diabetes. In the latter most of those affected are children.
The Ministry of Public Health, through the PND, absorbs 70% of patients at the country level.That is, 238,000 people are served.
