{"id":10959,"date":"2019-11-01T06:50:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=10959"},"modified":"2019-10-31T10:57:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:57:48","slug":"psu-despite-lack-of-confidence-to-talk-to-health-ministry-over-drug-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/psu-despite-lack-of-confidence-to-talk-to-health-ministry-over-drug-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"PSU, despite \u201clack of confidence,\u201d to talk to Health Ministry over drug coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Public Service Union (PSU) says it plans to talk to the Ministry of Health and Community Pharmacists\u2019 Association over the Ministry\u2019s \u201cquality assurance and procurement process\u201d for the importation of medications while expressing a \u201clack of confidence\u201d in the Ministry and Minister Pablo Marin for their handling of the situation and health services generally.<\/p>\n

The Union was responding in a press statement to Director of Health Services Dr. Marvin Manzanero, who in turn was responding to activist Geovannie Brackett. On Tuesday of this week, Brackett raised alarm that the Ministry was not doing enough to test the \u201cgeneric\u201d medications it allows to be imported, and is driving off \u201cname-brand\u201d medications over concerns of cost.<\/p>\n

The Union raised particular concern about the lack of certain essential medications and particularly HIV\/AIDS antiretroviral medication, which it called \u201cunacceptable, discriminatory and criminal.\u201d It also cited alleged conflicts of interest between physicians, administrators and even ministerial financial relationships and pharmaceutical firms and suppliers, stating these were costing Belize millions of dollars and in some cases lives, and asking the Prime Minister to intervene.<\/p>\n

Dr. Marvin Manzanero says stock of depleted particular anti-retroviral medications will arrive within \u201ctwo to three weeks,\u201d citing a combination of factors such as the Indian producers\u2019 inability to source certain materials and downscaling of production, leading larger countries to be supplied first. More than 1,300 Belizeans use anti-retroviral medication, and the longer the country is out of stock, the greater risk there is of a flare-up of HIV-related symptoms.<\/p>\n

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The Public Service Union (PSU) says it plans to talk to the Ministry of Health and Community Pharmacists\u2019 Association over the Ministry\u2019s \u201cquality assurance and procurement process\u201d for the importation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112],"tags":[138,116,139],"class_list":["post-10959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-drugsmedicine","tag-guyana","tag-healthcaremedical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/thermometer-headache-pain-pills-Pixabay-Pexels.jpeg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-2QL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11314,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/trinidad-company-that-imported-tainted-eye-injections-awarded-new-tender\/","url_meta":{"origin":10959,"position":0},"title":"Trinidad company that imported tainted eye injections awarded new tender","author":"Michele Marius","date":"December 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Trinidad Guardian) The company that brought in the tainted eye injections that left seven patients blinded in one or both eyes was awarded over $15 million in tender awards by the Ministry of Health. 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