'Drug shortages put thousands of Colombians at risk': chief medical expert .

'Drug shortages put thousands of Colombians at risk': chief medical expert .
Friday, 23 November 2012 09:21 Zach Edling

Drug shortages could put the lives of 7,000 Colombian cancer patients at risk, said the President of the Colombian Medical Federation Friday.

According to Sergio Isaza, various hospitals reported "shortages of essential" cancer fighting drugs.

"If we continue like this for the next year we could have 7,000 deaths [due to] lack of treatment...deaths that could be prevented with timely intervention," said Isaza.

Jaime Arias, President of the Colombian Association of Integral Medicine, explained that "several pharmaceutical companies simply stopped importing medicines (making Colombian hospitals) resort to costlier equivalents."

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