A 15-year-old teenager died on Thursday, October 27, just two months after starting dialysis treatment at JM de los Ríos. The NGO Prepara Familia demanded that the State comply with its duties to guarantee the right to life and health to minors
The NGO Prepara Familia reported this Saturday, October 29, that Esther Rangel, a young woman who just turned 15 years old, died on Thursday the 27th after three months of being diagnosed with kidney problems and had two months of dialysis in the Nephrology service of the JM de los Ríos Hospital in Caracas.
Through the social networksPrepara Familia asked that the transplant program in Venezuela, which has been suspended for several years, be reactivated and warned that minors cannot resist the disease because “they have everything against them.”
He recalled that the State is obliged to guarantee the right to life and health of those children and adolescents who suffer from chronic diseases.
The State is obliged to guarantee the right to health and the right to life of children and adolescents suffering from chronic diseases in the country.#cannotwaitmore #ReactivateTransplants pic.twitter.com/HBiOHMtZZn
– Prepare Family (@preparafamily) October 29, 2022
The organization Doctors for Health disclosed the results of May 2022 of the National Hospital Survey (ENH), where the increase -by four percentage points- of the inoperability of dialysis units in public health centers in the country was revealed, in addition to emergency waiting times.
In that report, the ENH revealed that in 2021 the inoperability of dialysis services in hospitals was 14.4%, while for the first months of 2022 it increased to 18.5%. “This responds to several factors, the main causes being the lack of constant water in hospitals and the lack of equipment repair.”
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Lucía Velutini, in charge of institutional relations at the National Transplant Organization of Venezuela (ONTV), stated on Thursday, October 27, at the Circuit Hits that the situation continues to be “sad” and “desolate” that he is waiting for a transplant and the transplanted themselves.
He indicated that November 1 marks five years and five months of the “temporary suspension” of transplants that only have the medical procedure that uses organs from patients who have already perished. He said that, although the transplant between living patients, who have the possibility of paying for the examinations and the operation, is still being carried out, 98% of Venezuelans who are waiting for an organ are left out.
Velutini said that the dialysis process in the country is somewhat uphill, since there are failures in public services that prevent treatment from being carried out, as well as the lack of medicines that allow its stabilization.
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