Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
03/07/2013
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The high cost of medicines prevents good portion of the population make use of them. The right to health is interpreted by the Unified Health System (SUS) in the provision of medicines to those who can not afford to buy them. However, it is becoming increasingly aid failures in the system.
To take advantage of products and services offered by the NHS, patients must follow a few steps. According to the lawyer Gabriela Cardoso Guerra Ferreira, "beyond the system provide a list of the remedies provided for free in their clinics, patients undergo examinations, consultations, disease confirmation and verification of personal documents. Only after these steps is that the user is registered in the program of drug receptors. "
However, many of the drugs - which can cost up to R$ 15 thousand reais per month - not listed above. Those who can not use SUS or who lack a recipe not offered for him, it is resorting to the judiciary.
"The best thing to do in these cases is to seek justice in the right to receive the drug," says the expert, "based on the Federal Constitution, which provides that all health care and access to medicines are fundamental rights."
It often happens that a remedy must be missing in the local health posts. "In these cases it is worth pointing out that the Union, states and municipalities are jointly responsible for ensuring the health of the citizen, and if no remedy in his city, the government has a duty to request the delivery of another city that has a prescribed medication "says Gabriela Guerra.
The caution when assessing the need and urgency of medical every citizen who uses the system is essential. "Several actions are proposed per day to plead medical treatment by SUS, but compel the public system to fund any request for the provision of health care could harm the medical portion of the population most in need," concluded the lawyer.
Source: UOL - Modern Consumer
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