Elderly woman begs for money in Tunja to buy medications not provided by Nueva EPS
Since January, 84-year-old Ana María García has gone daily to the Discolmets dispensary in Tunja, hoping to get her prescription for hydrocodone, the opioid that helps her cope with the pain of degenerative arthritis and the fibrosis that torments her.
TL;DR
- An 84-year-old woman, Ana María García, is unable to get her prescribed hydrocodone from Nueva EPS.
- She suffers from degenerative arthritis and fibrosis, and the lack of medication causes extreme pain.
- García has resorted to begging for money to buy her medication, which costs 180,000 pesos for 30 pills.
- Other Nueva EPS patients in Tunja are also not receiving their necessary medications.
- Claudia Patricia Chaparro, a patient with diabetes, kidney failure, and visual impairment, is facing the same issue.