Introduced in connection with pandemic of a new coronavirus infection restrictions should not apply to treatment children with cancer. This was stated by State Duma Vice Speaker Anna Kuznetsova, according to whom she sees “alarming trends” in this area.
According to Kuznetsova, with the onset of the covid pandemic, parents began to talk about various problems in providing medical care to children with cancer. Situations when declared in some regions suspension of planned hospitalization begins to concern patients with oncological diseases, should not be.
Anna Kuznetsova asks her fellow deputies to take special control in their regions on the provision of medical care to children with oncology in full, reports RIA News. She also noted the concern of both parents and doctors about the use of generic drugs for the treatment of small patients. In this regard, the Vice Speaker of the State Duma draws attention to the problems in the domestic pharmaceutical industry, which does not produce some vital drugs in the required volumes.