Gloria Jiménez consulted a doctor in December of 2015 after feeling a strange in hisright armpit mass. In July 2016, when breast cancer was already in stage III, it had the first session of chemotherapy. It took seven months, during which it held 10 procedures and saw four different doctors before receiving treatment.
But wasn't the Lady Jiménez so bad. According to the Observatory interinstitutionalof Cancer in adults (Oica), a patient with cancer in Colombia has that refill 30 procedures in average, that begin with the visit to the medical general, pass by ask them orders for each one of them tests, then them appointments with specialists, for finallyto get the authorization of your treatment. While that happens, thousands of patients die.
And it is that the latest Globocan report on incidence and mortality of cancer in thecountry, published by the World Health Organization, indicates that for every 196 people who are diagnosed in Colombia every day, die 104. Why?
According to the physician Eduardo Torregroza breast cancer, because 70 percent of treatments in the country begin when cancer is already in the third of four phases,approximately six months after first consulting the doctor. Only to get the diagnosisafter three months, said the National Cancer Institute.
The study of the Oica said that you between July 2015 and 2016 may, cancer patients organizations received 3,300 complaints. Delays in authorisations for procedures such as chemotherapy and tests corresponded to 21% of claims, followed by denialof drugs, with 18%; delay in the delivery of medicines, with 12%, and denial of services, with 11%.
Precisely by these barriers, the Superintendence of health imposed on the 2015 fines by the value of 9.929 million of pesos to entities providers of health. In run the 2016, sanctions by fetters to cancer patients already exceeded 7,500 million pesos. Saludcoop, Caprecom and Cafesalud lead the list of EPS with more fines.
The Lady Jimenez was an of the thousands of victims of that system. When he visited their general practitioner, the strange in her womb mass had a centimeter in diameter, but the day that an oncologist, the doctor saw her for the first time not even read the results of the tests: diagnosis was immediate. The tumor already included allthe breast, had a staining dark, the nipple sunk, the skin of Orange and them nodescollected. Even so, spent almost two months before receiving the first of them six sessions of ' chemo ' that you sent.
In 2010, 71.442 cases of cancer were diagnosed in the country and 37.894 patients died,i.e., by almost every two Diagnostics passed away a patient. According to Globocan,estimated that 2030 these figures be effectively doubled, with 125,000 new cases ofcancer per year and 76,000 deaths.
The incidence of cancer in Colombia lead it in the women's breast, and in men of prostate. While for every three women diagnosed in 2014 with that type of cancer, died in the case of the men, the proportion of diagnoses and death was of four to a.
For doctor Torregroza, while in developed countries breast cancer mortality is decreasing, in Colombia goes in ascending line, only 20 per cent of the cases diagnosed in stages I and II of the disease, and in phases III and IV the probability of survival isminimal over the 10 years after the diagnosis.
"We are spending them resources financial in treat to women in stages III and IV, that are virtually incurable, and not in them first, whose treatment is more simple", said the medical.
"Women learned all the symptoms, consult your doctor, seek help, but the system isfailing them" sentenced Torregroza, who added that even in this type of cancer, which is one of the easiest to detect characteristics, decisions are made on time.
The survival of women, pointed out, is it affected if from the moment in which there are symptoms until the start of treatment, spend more than 60 days, something thaton average in Colombia are taking three times.
Martha Gualtero, President of the inter-institutional Observatory attached to the Office of the Ombudsman, says recruitment event, meaning that each stage of the treatment a different entity to perform it, is what creates the absurd list of barriers to access for patients.
"We are giving the patient all bottled. "Is so serious that in some cases the opportunity to have an appointment with a specialist is taking two months", said.
Facing this problem, the Deputy Director of chronic diseases of the Ministry of health, José Fernando Valderrama, said that the Elimination of that Division of the
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