"A great country cares about children." A girl with a serious illness will finally receive the drug that the Voronezh Regional Health Department denied her.
At 8 year old Ulyana epilepsy. Her mother Yulia Dmitrieva She knocked on every door of the regional health department to obtain the effective drug "Ospolot." For about a year, she was told that the medication wasn't registered in Russia and couldn't be recommended for treating her child. It only took an hour to obtain the "magic piece of paper," but it required a trip to Moscow. The story of a child who was refused treatment in Voronezh... told journalists of "Moe!"
Ulyana has been taking Ospolot for two years and is experiencing stable remission. But her mother has difficulty affording it with her own money—the medication is sold illegally. 37,5 thousand rubles each per jar. Over the course of a year, the family spent 150 thousand rubles only for this drug.
Dmitrieva attempted to obtain the vital drug through state procurement through the regional health department, but failed. The medication isn't sold in regular pharmacies, but there's a way to supply it to patients: the local hospital makes a recommendation and forwards the documents to a federal specialized hospital, where a panel issues a prescription and permits importation. Doctors in Voronezh simply didn't make such recommendations.
In Moscow Veltischev's clinic Surprised by the "regional" authorities' refusal to prescribe a drug that had shown positive results, they convened a consultation and made a recommendation. The Voronezh Department of Health was forced to begin preparing documents for the state procurement procedure for the drug.
Voronezh residents in the comments disagreed on why officials don't care about the child: "A great country cares about children," "What a disgrace—they can't even allocate 150 rubles a year for a child!" "What's happening to Voronezh healthcare is simply terrifying. All the problems have been shifted onto the sick. If you have the money, buy it and get treatment. If you don't, die."
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