Kidney patients protested due to lack of supplies

Once again, dialysis patients from the Aragua hemodialysis unit organized a demonstration in Avenida Bolivar de Maracay to demand a solution to the multiple problems that put their patients in difficulty. life in danger.

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Despite their poor health conditions, patients had the strength to report that they have no medical supplies and for 15 days there is no water for human consumption in the unit, apart from that the Most nurses have resigned for the ridiculous pay that they have charged.

About 50 patients who receive daily care at the dialysis center located on Libertad Street in Maracay could not stand this situation and they placed their wheelchairs in the middle of the avenue to demand immediate solutions, especially to lack supply of inputs that had even been promised by the Venezuelan Social Security Institute.

They said that the shortage of drugs has worsened in recent months, as a result of which, unfortunately, many patients have died.

Jeannette Linares, "the food they send is in free fall and fear is invading us all because we can not be dialysed, there are even patients who die, while God gives the strength to continue to live. 19659006] He claimed that "there are no dialysis filters, we do not have water, we need many drugs to clean the toxins that accumulate in our bodies "Linares said. It concerns more than 300 patients who "live in anxiety, the filters that arrive are not enough and most of us can not buy them in private pharmacies because it costs n million bolivars. "

For his part, Henry Rodríguez denounced that the problem of patients was exacerbated by the almost massive resignation of nurses, who charge 500,000 biweekly bolivars, to which is added the problem of transport [19659002" Social security has to send supplies, unfortunately our lives depend on it so they should not be abusing us that way," Rodriguez demanded in the midst of the demonstration that paralyzed traffic in the center from Maracay.