"Patients are dying for lack of medication and not for the disease"

Freddy Ceballos, president of the Venezuelan Pharmaceutical Federation, visited the Ombudsman's Office to deliver a document requesting the preservation of the rights of the sick. Ceballos called on the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, and the ombudsman, Tarek William Saab, to attend to the situation. Mr. Ombudsman, Mr. President of the Republic, there is no tomorrow. They are dying patients for lack of medicines and not for the disease, "he told Globovisión. The trade union representative reiterated the situation of shortage of medicines and stressed that this is 80%, in addition to denouncing the lack of supplies and reagents for procedures. "We have a shortage of 80% of medicines in the country, there are no elective operations because there are unfortunately no medical supplies, patients die due to lack of reagents and lack of medicines, there are no diagnoses because there are no reagents in hospitals, How are we going to know what we are getting sick of if there are not even reagents to do the routine exams, "he said.