MIAMI, United States. — Elizabeth Coba Proenza, mother of a girl from Baracoa with epilepsy, asked for help for her daughter due to the shortage of necessary medications for the treatment of disease,
“I have a 13-year-old girl who has been going through hereditary epilepsy since she was 10 years old,” the woman revealed to CubaNet Before listing several of the medications that the minor needs to control the disease.
“Three years ago he was taking carbamazepine, but it had to be changed to sodium valproate (500 mg), which is good for him, but there is nowhere to be found, at least here in Baracoa I have never been able to buy it,” said the mother.
The girl also needs 10 milligram propranolol, a drug that is not sold in Baracoa.
Coba Proenza noted that her daughter needs a nerve medication that is also in short supply: alprazolam.
“They do not prioritize it because they say that it is a drug that is not prioritized, that the first one who arrives buys it,” the mother told this newspaper.
In the case of alprazolam, the woman from Baracoa was only able to obtain it through a friend who gave her 30 tablets that were enough for two weeks, since the scheme is for one dose in the morning and another in the afternoon.
Due to the absence of medication to treat epilepsy, the minor has suffered several falls, one of which occurred recently.
“Right now she has no medication (…). And I have to live with this situation. I run the risk that they call me at any time because she fell or had a crisis, ”said her mother.
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