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She has cystic fibrosis, and after a desperate video asking for help, she got a judge to listen to her.

2020-07-03T20:38:14.227Z


Sabrina Monteverde is 22 years old and is from Cordoba. Even after going to court, she still couldn't get coverage for a crucial drug.


07/03/2020 - 13:11

  • Clarín.com
  • Society

The video spread on social networks and generated impact. In the images, Sabrina Monteverde, a 22-year-old Cordovan woman, says that she suffers from cystic fibrosis and that she is desperate because although she insisted and resorted to Justice, she could not get her social work to cover a medicine that can stop the progress of her illness. . After exposing her story in this way, the girl managed to get a judge to order the Provincial Health Insurance Administration (Apross) this Friday to "immediately"  provide full coverage of the drug.

The measure, according to the newspaper La Voz, was taken in response to the request for amparo filed in early June by the lawyer Carlos Nayi on behalf of the young woman, and establishes that the Apross must provide the medicine or the necessary funds for its acquisition by part of the beneficiary.

In addition, the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the 2nd Shift summoned the authorities of the province's Ministry of Health to appear so that this portfolio could participate in the coverage that Sabrina's treatment requires.

In another of the points of the judicial decision, the Cordovan Ministry of Health is exhorted to "manage a concerted federalism in health matters and co-participate with the National Ministry of Health to pay and / or reimburse the high costs of treatment. "

María Inés Ortiz de Gallardo, the judge responsible for the ruling, also urged the provincial and national health authorities to "actively promote the continuity of the legislative treatment of the draft Protection Law for Patients with Fibrosis ", which currently has a half-sentence of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation.

Sabrina Monteverde, in the video that she uploaded to Instagram and went viral.

Superviral

In less than a day, Sabrina's video went viral: this Thursday he had been viewed more than 3 million times .

"Hello good night, my name is Sabrina Monteverde, I am 22 years old, I am from Córdoba, Argentina and I have cystic fibrosis, a genetic and hereditary disease that has no cure every day, but there is a drug that slows down the deterioration called trikafta , in the middle of a judicial process I resort to his help so that Apross of answers on the coverage of the medication or that the Justice advances with the trial to be able to have a better quality of life . It is my right and I am going to fight for it. I need your help to For my voice to be heard, I need your help because I am already tired, the body does not understand times or legalities, "said the young woman on camera.

Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary genetic disease that alters the normal functioning of the glands of external secretion, causing damage to different organs of the respiratory system, pancreas, liver and also the reproductive system . The sweat glands are also affected by the high amount of sodium and chlorine, causing the sweat to be saltier than usual.

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Source: clarin

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