Relatives of patients with mental problems protested in the Esmeraldas Health district, to be provided with medicine for their treatment.
The lack of medical professionals and the lack of medicine to care for the health of people with mental disorders in Esmeraldas health centerswas denounced this Tuesday, February 08, by relatives of several patients.
With greater emphasis that voice of claim was heard, in the facilities of the Health Center No. 1 located in the Aire Libre sector. There, a score of mothers of families, including Mary Reasco, expressed their outrage at the abrupt and unexplained suspension of medical care for their patients.
A year without medicine
Reasco also stated that for more than a year in that health home they do not deliver the necessary drugs to the mentally ill in outpatient care. Many of them today are decompensated because they do not take medicine, so they show worrying signs and have begun to wander the streets, he said.
Another mother of a family, Rocío Laso, noted that in that health unit there is no Aloperidol, Resperidone, Sinodan, Valcote, Ketiapine. Nor do they have Lithium Carbonate, Spiron and other essential drugs for those people with psychosocial disabilities.
Mercedes Tello, mother of a family, said that for patients to receive care they have to go to the Health Center at 05:00 and 06:00 to get an appointment, despite having the appointment scheduled.
As long as Karolina Quimbiulcodemanded that the Ministry of Public Health assign psychiatry professionals, who, in his opinion, are scarce in Esmeraldas.
In addition, Carlos Acostamember of the Chamber of Tourism emeraldsurged the health authorities to be concerned about this problem, given that schizophrenic people continue to wander the streets of the city, some of them naked.
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exhort
This Wednesday at 3:00 p.m., the mothers of families who ask for medicines for their patients with mental disorders will meet with the executive secretary of the Cantonal Council for the Protection of Rights, Nelson Valencia to request that you carry out a warrant and demand process so that the Ministry of Public Health provides preferential and timely care to this vulnerable group.
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Critical knots in approaches
From the Council for the Protection of Rights, the Executive Secretary, Nelson Valencia, reported that the shortage of medicines in public health houses is one of the critical knots they have in the process of boarding, hospitalization and treatment of these patients. For this reason, as an institution, they carry out the campaign ‘Sponsor a mentally ill person’, to obtain drugs for those who have been hospitalized.
