The IMSS applies a treatment that eliminates hepatitis "C & # 39;

Mexican Institute of Social Security ( IMSS ) advances in Eradication of Hepatitis C with two drugs Innovative in its base table, which has been in effect since April last year. With them, 96% of the beneficiaries treated eliminated the virus and regained their quality of life by halting the progression of diseases in the liver

noted that 39, at the present time, 1,554 patients received direct-acting antiviral therapy of which 483 responded positively to 12 weeks when it was applied.

The institution added that with the drug above, treatment lasted up to two years without providing certainty of cure; With the current, the results are achieved at 99% between three and six months. He explained that Mexico ranks second in Latin America, after Brazil, with the highest number of cases diagnosed with hepatitis C, with 232 thousand, of which 81,000 are beneficiaries of IMSS

The Social Security has ten centers in the reference hospitals of Mexico City, Guadalajara, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Hermosillo, Tamaulipas, Tijuana, Puebla and Yucatan, in which the treatment of hepatitis C is provided, but only to patients who are carriers of genotype 1 of the virus. The institute expects a complete drug that will soon fight all types of hepatitis C to be added to its drug table.

The antiviral direct action is part of the new generation of drugs that IMSS incorporates into its base map for the benefit of rightful claimants because of its financial solidity in this administration.

Dr. Maria Teresa Rizo Robles, of the Clinic of Hepatitis of the Specialty Hospital of the National Medical Center La Raza, pointed out that innovative medicines provided by the Social Security have a percentage of 39%. efficacy greater than 95% while conventional drugs achieve between 55 and 60%.

He reported that among the risk factors to acquire r hepatitis C there have been blood transfusions prior to 1995, tattooing and piercing, organ transplantation, l 39; intravenous drug use and unprotected sex.

the legitimate claimants – especially those who have risk factors – to go to their family medicine unit, to undergo a blood test and to detect if they are carriers of hepatitis . If he is positive, he says, patients are referred to a specialized hospital to receive timely treatment and avoid further liver damage FM