“Patients are treated with these treatments, which are safer and more effective, but hospitals do not provide them and do not send patients to remote wards, in some cases tens of kilometers away. Many patients, in order not to travel, end up asking for traditional medicines,” he explains to the publication. CM Jaime Melancia, President of PSOPortugal.
The person in charge emphasizes that the “slowdown” in the issuance of these medications occurs solely for economic reasons. “Each injection can cost a thousand euros or more, and there are treatments that can be done every two weeks or monthly.” There are an estimated 400,000 people in Portugal with psoriasis, a chronic skin disease. PSOPortugal is launching an information campaign this Friday “to let patients know that they have the right to treatment and treatment in hospitals in their area.”
Author: Edgar Nascimento
Source: CM Jornal
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