Santo Domingo. – Truth be told: the delivery of high cost drugs has been regularized, reported the Dominican Foundation for Intestinal Inflammatory Diseases (FUNDEII).
The gastroenterologist Sócrates Bautista gave the good news and said that patients with Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are receiving the medications that their condition needs as treatment.
He specified that he held a meeting with the director of the Essential Medicines Program / Logistical Support Center (PROMESE/CAL), Adolfo Pérez de León, who informed him of the good news.
“The supply of medicines has been guaranteed for the next six months and that as they run out, they will re-engage the tender for their next purchase,” Bautista said, the official in charge of state purchases told him. and the distribution of those medicines that must be delivered by the Ministry of Health.
The past president of the Dominican Society of Gastroenterology expressed his satisfaction with the positive change in the supply of these drugs in the country.
“I hope that patients who have been decompensated will recover again,” he said.
He recalled that months ago, due to the lack of high-cost medications, a large part of the patients suspended their treatments and began to decompensate.
