In the last control they only gave him 10 reactive strips, when he needs 120 units per month.
The Federal Program Include Health (Profe) continues to add claims.A 16 -year -old teenager, who three diabetes was diagnosed three, recently received supplies to cover just three days of treatment.
Petrona is Javier's mother-an insulin-dependent boy-and together with his other five children they reside in the boards, in the north of Bethlehem, 30 kilometers from the departmental head.
For a year Javier has received a pension for his illness and, since he was diagnosed with diabetes, once a month he must travel with his mother to the Children's Hospital to carry out the control studies.Only in tickets, Petrona must pay almost $ 1,200.
From the joints to the city of Bethlehem, the ballot costs $ 45, and from this town to the capital, the price of the ticket is $ 240.This mother of six boys- all of them school age- receives the universal assignment per child.This is your only fixed money income, because it has no stable job."We have the harvest of the nut, but because of the change of government there is no job," he said.
The situation of his son Javier requires attention.Monthly they must travel to the capital so that the boy performs routine controls at the interzonal hospital of children and, incidentally, to withdraw the medication."The teacher gave me a receipt to withdraw the medication in the Ministry of Health," he said.
However, since November Profe has no supplies and the health portfolio collaborates with this program but is not enough to cover Javier's treatment.On Wednesday they gave him just 10 reactive strips-a box brings 25 units and reaches for a week-when the teenager needs to control the sugar level three times a day."Without control, he doesn't know how glycemia has. He lives with that," said Petrona.
Many times, this mother had to go for help to local radio and, fortunately, in this way she always finds some generous person willing to help.In this regard, Children's Hospital doctors noted that many times the boys with diabetes the teacher gives them insulin in jars, when the optimal thing is with the pencil system."In the case of boys, you should always try to provide the best resources and not the most obsolete," they warned.
Despite the distance in which Javier lives, no agency of the province brings the medication to the Boards or Bethlehem.According to Petrona, at some occasion they sent him the entrustment with the reactive strips and insulin, "but the package was open." So he considered it better, although facing the expense of his own pocket, having to travel to the city.
At the moment, the mother commented, Javier is stable and attends school in the Barrancas.He is studying 5th.Secondary year."Luckily is fine and has no problem," he said.
Javier's situation is not the only one, but the aggravating person is that it is a boy with a base pathology.In recent months, the claims of patients benefited from the teacher due to the lack of coverage or the delay in the delivery of medications is constant.
