The Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, confirmed that the manager of the Francisco de Icaza Bustamante Hospital, which is located in the south of Guayaquil, it was removed due to what it called an “irregular process.”
“When you carry out a purchasing process and you are given medicine, medical devices, the person in charge of that purchasing process and the hospital manager are the people responsible, that is why the manager was immediately removed”, he said in reference to medicines that would have been about to expire.
The departure of the manager occurs after learning about the purchase of drugs for oncological treatments at the Children’s Hospital that were going to expire in May 2022. In total there were 210 units.
The proximity of the expiration of these drugs had apparently been alerted by the hospital manager to the zonal health coordination.
Garzón added that those medications were withdrawn immediately from the hospital and this week the oncology drugs arrive for the treatment of pediatric patients. A new manager was also appointed.
Complaints increase due to lack of medicines, such as ibuprofen, supplies for operations and shifts for exams at the IESS hospital in Ambato
Rafael Palacios, member of the association of parents of children with cancer, in dialogue with the chain Ecuavisaquestioned that in addition to patients having to wait months for their treatments, these irregularities occur in purchasing processes.
The spokesman for the foundation asked the State portfolio to comprehensively resolve the shortage, which according to him, persists in this hospital and that harms the health of cancer patients.
The case of the Children’s Hospital has sparked concern in the legislature, where some assembly members are trying to find out details of this process.
In a statement, the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), denied that expired medicine had been received in two health houses in Quito, one of them the Baca Ortiz, dedicated to treating illnesses in minors.
Besides that in the Abel Gilbert Hospital, Guayaquil, A replenishment was made of those medicines that had an expiration date of less than six months.
The minister affirmed that the units of that State portfolio have approximately the 80% of the supply of medicines.
That State portfolio has under its administration 135 hospitals at the national level.
According to Garzon, It also involves the provision of medicines against cancer and other diseases.
There would be at least three steps to obtain medicines in a pharmacy outsourcing project
Meanwhile, outside the Palacio de Carondelet, in the center of Quito, there was a seedling of the foundation Youth Against Cancer. People who were at the site using crutches and wheelchairs gathered there.
According to their spokespersons, because the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) “abandons” children and young people without food, without psychologists and without agreements.
There were black balloons, banners, drums in protest and through a megaphone they asked for an agreement to be signed. Some banners said: “Mr. President, help” or “My country deaf, blind and dumb before my pain.”
They work with that organization. two psychologists, one social worker and a technician who would be unpaid for twelve months, for which they asked the Government for support. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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