Diabetic patients in Taiz face a crisis [Archives:2004/783/Local News]

Taiz Bureau
Yemen Times
An unprecedented high number of diabetic patients in Taiz have reportedly complained about poor services of the Health Office of Taiz Governorate. They raised complaints about insufficient quantities of Insulin, which is prescribed for them in monthly doses. They claim that such medicine is mostly provided by International donors and is then sold for benefit of certain individuals.
Yemen Times received a copy of the memorandum directed by the Republican General Hospital Management in Taiz demanding the Health Office and the Medical Supplies to provide the Insulin quantity prescribed for more than three hundred and sixty patients. The memorandum in question indicated that the hospital didn't receive more than ten vials caused to the hospital tremendous difficulties in delivering the appropriate medication to diabetic patients. The reply by the Medical Supplies Office to the memorandum aforementioned that there was a deficit in its budget and could not have sent any more medicine. The response also mentioned that nothing could be done until more quantities are received from the Regional office in Aden.
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