Colombia has a Dane That tells how many Colombians exist and measures inflation every month, but does not tell us how many Colombians They died every month and Causeslike what They did not attend it in an urgency, because already There is no emergency roomthat did not give him a medically on the one that depended, or the treatment he kept alive can no longer offer it. That is why they took this letter in Holy Week with a 7 -words sermon, but with those that in their opinion describe the Drama of patients in the country. In it they express the drama of relatives who have vital risk, and their own: to see a loved one loved by the indolence of those who destroy the health system.
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The letter says: “Those who still think they will not touch them:
There are seven words that today shout stronger than any speech, stronger than any official excuse. Seven words that travel hospitals, waiting rooms, empty pharmacies and homes full of anguish: there is no. It does not authorize. We don’t know. Wait.
Each of them contains a tragedy. A cancer patient who listens to “there is no“When he arrives for his chemotherapy. A child with epilepsy whose mother begs in front of a window and receives a”It does not authorize“A grandmother in pain to those who say” we do not know when they will attend it. “A person with HIV who has been waiting for his medicine for weeks. And all, we all listen to the same at the end:”wait”
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¿Wait what? What the system collapses at all? What the disease progresses? That they still die patients?
This letter is not just a desperate cry. It is also a promise: we are not going to shut up. We are patients, family, caregivers, citizens. We are not figures or procedures. We are people with rights.
We demand answers. We demand respect. We demand actionwe demand the right to life.
The health system is failing, and behind each failure there is a life at risk. We do not ask for miracles. We ask for dignity. We ask that health ceases to be a political and ideological game and be a fundamental right again.
To you who read this: it could also be your story. Today we are. Tomorrow, it may be you who listen to those seven words.
There is no money for health, there is no BedsThere are no authorizations, there is no network, there are no medical appointments, there are no medicines, there is no government that stops the health crisis.
And then, he will understand why we write this letter today. ”
Signed: Patients from Colombia.
Because living cannot be a privilege, it is a fundamental right
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