Martínez indicated that there are 38 steps for the acquisition of medicines, and the period of time that passes from when the need arises until the medicine is available for dispatch, is a period of two years.
This Monday the meetings of the technical table will continue to deal with the cost and shortage of medicines in the Social Security Fund (CSS) and which is chaired by the vice president, José Gabriel Carrizo.
Emilia Martínez, from the National Association of People with Multiple Sclerosis and who is part of this work commission, asserted that the shortage is due to the mismanagement of the entity’s budget (of the CSS).
“I really don’t know how much I have to buy and from whom I have to buy because they don’t collect data, because they have systems in the institution that don’t understand each other,” he specified.
Martínez indicated that there are 38 steps for the acquisition of medicines, and the “period of time that passes from when the need arises until the medicine is available for dispatch, is a period of two years.”