Children With Cancer Die Due to Lack of Medicines in Mexico - Panam Post

[TomSea]

Children With Cancer Die Due to Lack of Medicines in Mexico
“The guilty must be punished,” said AMLO about the death of children with cancer due to the lack of medications; but he does not recognize the responsibility of his government.
By Mamela Fiallo Flor Last updated Sep 3, 2019

In Mexico, a child succumbs to cancer every four hours. But the health secretary says that it is not an emergency (PanAm Post photo montage).

Spanish – Parents of children with cancer blocked the Mexico City airport exit to protest the lack of medications. On Friday 30th August, they managed to get the president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), to speak out about the shortage of medicines under his government, which has affected the patients, particularly minors.

In Mexico, a child succumbs to cancer every four hours. But the health secretary says that it is not an emergency. It is the leading cause of death in infancy. The shortage of medicines caused by Lopez Obrador’s policies aggravates the phenomenon.
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“Those responsible must be punished,” the president said from the National Palace after the case of a minor with cancer who died due to the lack of medicines went viral.

Read more at: https://panampost.com/mamela-fiallo/2019/09/02/children-with-cancer-die-mexico/

Child dying every 4 hours? That's incredible really, if that is going on, the poor children.

Sometimes, stats I wonder about, every four hours would truly be horrendous, definitely a story to read up on.

What does her sign say,

Ni Derecha ni Izquierda
Dejen de Pelear y Haga
Su Trabajo La Vida
De Los Niños Con
Cancer Estaren en Peligro

Neither the Right nor Left
Stop fighting and make
Your work the Life
Of the Children with
Cancer who are in danger.

[PeteS in CA]

To what degree or in what ways does Mexico have government "health care". Assuming the Mexican government actually controls the supply of medicines.\

Maybe the cartels should switch from pot and cocaine to antibiotics and chemotherapy agents?

[TomSea]

I can't help but think, Mexico's Health System probably isn't too good.

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The swine flu outbreak in Mexico is testing the country's complex health system as thousands of worried people pour into hospitals and clinics for diagnosis and care.

The health-care system in Mexico is a patchwork of evolving and sometimes confusing services for 105 million people in a country still suffering from diseases of the developing world, such as tuberculosis and malaria. Meanwhile, first world maladies have also been emerging — the World Health Organization lists diabetes as the leading cause of death in Mexico, followed by heart and liver disease.

As the influenza crisis caused by the H1N1 virus has unfolded, that health system has come under increasing pressure. The ill have been going to local hospitals or clinics, but the idiosyncrasies of the health system mean the facilities they visit can depend on where they live, who they work for and how much money they make.

Read more at: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/how-mexico-s-health-system-works-1.777348

@PeteS in CA

You are a very well-informed poster.

I note, I'm going to try to change my avatar temporarily in rememberance of 911. This is not obligatory on posters but others seem to do it here and I was just saying this in case, no one told you. We are only at September 4th and I'm certainly no head honcho, lower honcho and so on.  Just relaying info.

Thanks for the response. I will try to see what I can find.  Mexico in ways, seems rather backward. I can barely fathom there being emergencies and then, getting total healthcare, there must be some evidently. That is a very good question.

[thackney]

Child dying every 4 hours? That's incredible really, if that is going on, the poor children.

Sometimes, stats I wonder about, every four hours would truly be horrendous, definitely a story to read up on.

In the US, it works out to just under 5 hours.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/childhood-cancers/child-adolescent-cancers-fact-sheet

In 2018, it is estimated that 15,590 children and adolescents ages 0 to 19 will be diagnosed with cancer and 1,780 will die of the disease in the United States

[PeteS in CA]

In the US, it works out to just under 5 hours.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/childhood-cancers/child-adolescent-cancers-fact-sheet

In 2018, it is estimated that 15,590 children and adolescents ages 0 to 19 will be diagnosed with cancer and 1,780 will die of the disease in the United States

The population of the US is ~2.57 times that of Mexico. So the seeming similarity becomes a dissimilarity if calculated on a per capita basis.

[PeteS in CA]

I can't help but think, Mexico's Health System probably isn't too good.
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I note, I'm going to try to change my avatar temporarily in rememberance of 911. This is not obligatory on posters but others seem to do it here and I was just saying this in case, no one told you. We are only at September 4th and I'm certainly no head honcho, lower honcho and so on.  Just relaying info.
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Thanks for the reminder. I got lazy and didn't try to find the San Jose Murky Skews' cover of 9-11. I used a fairly well-known picture instead.

[TomSea]

In the US, it works out to just under 5 hours.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/childhood-cancers/child-adolescent-cancers-fact-sheet

In 2018, it is estimated that 15,590 children and adolescents ages 0 to 19 will be diagnosed with cancer and 1,780 will die of the disease in the United States

And thank you @thackney   ,  good work. I will check some figures myself.