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04/06/2012
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Initiative should benefit up to 800,000 patients per year
On Monday (4) the Brazilian government began distributing free medicines for asthma in 554 units and own more than 20,000 drugstores. According to the Ministry of Health, the initiative will benefit up to 800,000 patients per year among families living in poverty and have children under six years.
To remove the medicines you must present your photo ID, Social Security and prescription drugs within the period of validity.
The distribution is part of the Brazil Program Affectionate, released on May 14 by President Rousseff. The drugs which are to be distributed are ipratropium bromide, beclomethasone dirpoprionato and salbutamol sulphate.
Currently, the three are already on the list of drugs the People's Pharmacy, a federal government program that offers products with up to 90% discount. This program also delivers for free drugs for patients with diabetes and hypertension.
With the inclusion of these drugs, the Health Ministry hopes to reduce the hospitalization of children with asthma. In 2011, 177,800 hospital admissions in SUS (Unified Health System), due to this disease, 77,100 were children at this age. In addition, about 2,500 people die each year because of asthma.
Source: R7 News
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