Apr
02
Prepaid discounts must give food for celiacs
The ruling is part of Division II of the House Civil and Commercial Federal, which ruled that the prepaid OSDE must carry the same discounts on drugs that recognizes the special meal Eat a celiac child, judicial sources said.
Meanwhile, a spokesman said businessman OSDE Telam that “we were not notified” of the measure.
spokesman said that “there are a number of background of judges that include benefits and would be good when we are forced to cover a cost to tell us what resources, in order not to weaken our delivery system.
Meanwhile, Monica pharmaceutical Bufor, Argentina Celiac Association based in La Plata, who has a1000celiac daughter told Telam that “the drug of celiac is diet, diet is very expensive and we need to take the drug celiacs.”
Celiac disease or celiac disease affects one in every hundred people, but reported only 25 thousand cases diagnosed.
It is an autoimmune disease that involves chronic inflammation of the small intestine, caused by a plant-protein-gluten in wheat, barley, rye and oats, and is resulting in atrophy of intestinal villi preventing nutrition.
Bufor
emphasized that “one of the details of the national law enacted by the end of the year is that meals are provided by the celiac social work, the prepaid or social development”.
The Law 26,588 was enacted last December, “but the provinces have to adhere to this rule, which regulates the health ministry,” said Bufor.
“In the province of Buenos Aires , celiacs with income less than a thousand pesos a month, receive a box of goods by 48 pesos, value is not updated, although the special flour kilo costs 20 pesos, “he said Bufor.
celiac association promotes the box containing the required monthly supply of products and seeks a census to determine the actual number of celiac patients.
mentioned in the ruling, the Court equated the “premix flours and gluten-free” with the drugs than members OSDE (Social Work Direct Services Organisation of Employers) get discounts from pharmacies and ordered the company to implement the same subsidies for the child.
The maids Alfredo Gusman, Ricardo Santiago Kierman Guarinoni and arranged for OSDE “should reinstate the actors (the parent of a celiac child) a percentage identical to that recognized for the purchase of medicines in general in the purchase premix flour and gluten free. “
The judges explained that” there is no cure for the disease in question but a treatment that consists of observing a gluten-free diet. ” (Telam).
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