1 minute read
Monitoring The Access to Health in Venezuela Newsletter N.29 December 2019
Advertisement
In Venezuela a depression can be much more dangerous than in any other country, look because
DEPRESSION AND PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Chart No. 7: Behavior of the Medicine Shortage Index by Morbidity: Depression, December 2019.
The purchase of drugs required to treat and control depression and other personality disorders was a pending task in 2019. Shortage rates continued to rise despite a slight improvement in supply levels as compared against those of previous months. People with personality disorders living in Barquisimeto, Caracas and its surrounding areas had difficulty finding the necessary medicines to control their illness because the Medicine Shortage Index therefor remained above 90 percent in December 2019. Only the city of Puerto La Cruz registered a substantial change in the basket of antidepressant medicines, with a sharp 64-point reduction in shortage levels between November and December.
www.conviteac.org.ve
