By: Siphiwe Ngcongco
Date: Thu, 25 May 2023
Language: English
Category: Accident
There is a barrier to Fibrosis drug
The tears are overflowing like a river pertaining heavy price listing of Cystic Fibrosis medication. This built barrier of medical accessibility for South African patients – leaving families chanting funeral song early.
According to Medicines San Frontiers Doctors Without Borders, the drug is conversely priced at dreadful amount of United State $311,000 per year per patient in America (almost R5,722,400). Given that cystic fibrosis is a chronic condition, patients are required to take this drug for the rest of their lives.
South Africa Cystic Fibrosis Association said there are roughly 550 people who has been diagnosed with CF and the statistic is due to patients being undiagnosed or misdiagnosed in the past when CF was relatively unheard of.
Candice Sehoma, advocacy advisor said they submitted court application pertaining the drug tussle availability.
“we filed court application to obtain evidence as to how to duplicate drug patterns and have an access to the medication. But we still waiting for the court to accept our application then proceed with the process” she said. Adding, “can the government change the pattern laws to include flexibility and languages that raw provide save guard for public health. The South African health system is not favorable in supplying medical product to the public”.
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