The Dominican Society of Medical Oncology (Sodom) denounced that many patients dependent on the high -cost medications They have not received the drugs from the official entity to supply them.
The president of SodomÁngela Margarita Cabreja Espinal, said there is a crisis never seen before in the time supply of the delivery of high -cost drugs to patients They depend on those medicines to survive.
Spinal goat made a called to the President Luis Abinader to provide correcting that situation, “because people are dying without medicines.”
Interviewed by Héctor Herrera Cabral in the D’A Agenda programthat every Sunday is disseminated by Canal 11 and TV Telesystem Quisqueya for the United States, the Oncologist assured that this situation is living in personal and professional terms.
He insisted that not only are it people who They suffer from cancer, but also from other diseases that the drugs of the agency assigned to the Ministry of Public Health must receive.
Spinal cabreja cited the patients of Rheumatoid arthritisthose who suffer from Multiple sclerosis and with those who have renal transplantwhich is also difficult to access very expensive drugs.
Said not to understand the reason for deficit of those medications.
“We do not understand it, because in view of the last findings of the assumption SENASA fraudthere it is glimpsed that there is a lot of money; What happens is that this is poorly managed, “he added, according to a press release from the D’A Agenda program.
Says Cibao oncological works as a private clinic
Dr. Ángela Cabreja, who presides over the Dominican Society of Medical Oncology, said that the CIBAO Oncological Institute It works as a private health centerbut it remunerates its staff with much lower salaries than those accrued in public hospitals.
Clarified that, if there is subsidy or one salary improvement From her departure from said health center, she does not know.
About the newly dismissed Oncologist Juan Vilawho denounced supposed Irregularities in the Oncological of Cibaothe president of Sodom He defined it as a generations master who began his career at the José María Cabral and Báez hospital, and dedicated decades to that institute.
“And I know that this is your pain, every year delivered to that institution in exchange for anything, and now disappear without more explanations, then that It generates a duela crisis, but I do not know the details of how the institute is being handled today, “said Dr. Cabreja.
He explained that “I can talk to you from 2017 to 2019”, because in those two years I was part of the group of doctors of the doctors of the CIBAO Regional Oncological Institute.
Question patronatos and self -managed hospitals
Cabreja also launched harsh criticism of Health Patters which said they sell as salvadores from people with limited resources, but in reality they profit from that population, as well as to the self -managed hospitalswhich charge a certain amount of money to patients that come in search of medical care.
“Unfortunately, they are sold as the saviors of that dispossessed population, but they really show off, there is no other word to say it, despite the fact that by law that should not be done, but it is done, it does not matter that it is a non -profit organization, that is reality,” lamented the president of the Dominican Society of Oncology When answering questions in the D’Agenda program.
Cabreja said that this is the way of acting of the Cibao oncologicalalthough he acknowledges that investments have been made, which have contributed to the hospital to improve and grow, “and in these years a difference in the face of the institute is perceived.”
Oncologist Ángela Cabreja questioned the fact that the Incart was included in the self -managed hospitalswhen another way of managing this type of institute that has so much relevance for society should be sought.
“And it became another NGO, because in the end the patients of the Rosa Emilia Tavares They have to pay recovery fees, that is not free there, then, one asks, how does this system work? And how are we going to solve it? “He criticized.
