• Health now rejects 20% of patients' requests for cancer treatments in the IVO
  • The Receiver questions the pact with the IVO but assumes that there was no alternative

The new tool that has just been installed by the Department of Health to dismiss requests from patients who had requested to be treated for their oncological processes in the IVO are leading to personal and family dramas . Patients who even had citations to be intervened and have been forced to leave the Valencian Institute of Oncology with no more justification than a red mark in their clinical file .

And it is that behind each cancer patient there is a story of despair marked by the race against the clock imposed by this deadly disease.

The case of JB begins like everyone else, with a suspected tumor. This is a middle-aged man who was detected in September with prostate cancer and who, on the recommendation of his relatives, began the process to be treated at the IVO.

Due to the seriousness of his pathology, JB received administrative silence - three days without receiving notification of Health - which allowed him to go to the oncological center of Campanar. However, given the urgency required by his state, on December 9 he returned to formalize his request so that the treatments he already receives in the IVO obtained the approval of the Valencian health administration.

Four days later his ordeal began. Last Thursday, December 12, his request was rejected in the CONCERTS application that Health has installed in the IVO. His anguish was increasing because he asked about the reason for his exclusion and received the silence in response. No one seems to know why it is outside the circuit of the cancer institute and what has been the criteria used to deny your request.

The main problem is based on the fact that the bureaucracy of Public Health has not detected that the patient already had an appointment and an operating room to be operated on Monday, Monday 16, and that by refusing his medical history, a clinical protocol that began more than three years ago is paralyzed months with the sole objective of preventing the tumor, which eats the patient's prostate, from being removed before it continues to spread. The cancer services of public hospitals have not yet given a clear forecast of when it can be operated if you leave the IVO.

At this point, JB presented his tragic circumstance to the management of the IVO who, as confirmed by the affected party, has decided to continue with the operation and assume all expenses if the Department of Health is opposed to the patient remaining in the Foundation.

With VP the setback is traced but with two different nuances. On the one hand, the cancer is not prostate but bladder and, on the other, that the concern of this 60-year-old man from a town near Valencia, has led him to ask for the cancellation of his treatment directly at the Department of health.

Very early, on Friday the 13th at the headquarters of Micer Mascó 31, VP asked to go up to the fifth floor to meet with the Director General of Healthcare, María Amparo García Layunta, as responsible for cancellations at the oncology institute . Despite his insistence, he was denied access with the excuse that they knew nothing.

The patient, who has been urinating blood for weeks, decides, on the same day, to see his family doctor who refers him to the specialists of the General Hospital. Once there, they tell you, "in very good words," that in January you will be notified to begin tests to determine what type of tumor you have. VP insists that the pain is very strong and that he fears for his life if he does not receive the citation soon. The answer in the public center is laconic and impersonal: "We'll call you now."

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