The hepatitis C virus and the high cost of medicine heals the sick

The Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality is still negotiating with the Gilead laboratory possible downgrade of treatment while patient complaints multiply.

They've been more than four months of negotiations but the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has not yet made the " I do" to the laboratory Gilead recess asking 100,000 euros per treatment . This has caused a great resignation among patients who say they are " letting die for money."

Specifically , it is a treatment called Sovaldi and other benefits could cure up to 90 % of cases, chronic hepatitis C in adults. So at least determines the European Medicines Agency , while the Ministry of Health explained that the Spanish Medicines Agency negotiated with the Autonomous Communities that this treatment should occur at least in the most serious cases .

However, it seems that have not yet complied with that maxim. The problem, as expected, living in " unaffordable price " as recognized by the Ministry of Health, which looks feasible that can fund a treatment that costs 100,000 euros per patient , as is the price put on the week laboratory .

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