Girl with severe Crohn's disease denied subsidized medicine in Volgograd

A young woman with a severe intestinal disease cannot receive subsidized medication in Volgograd. To get the vital injection, Zhelana has to travel to other cities—to Rostov-on-Don or Astrakhan. According to her mother, the expensive drug is currently in the procurement stage, and it is unknown when it will be available to her daughter.

As Zhelana«s mother told V1.RU, her daughter was diagnosed with Crohn»s disease in 2021. Since then, she has been taking an expensive medication without which she could die.

«This is an incurable autoimmune intestinal disease which, without proper treatment, can lead to death or removal of the intestines. Every two months, my daughter vitally needs an injection of the drug to maintain remission, but it»s often not provided on time, as is the case now—it«s in the procurement stage and is not expected for the next two months. In such cases, she, like other patients with this diagnosis, has to travel to other cities for a single injection, in both scorching heat and freezing cold. The drug must be taken on time, otherwise its effectiveness decreases or is lost. And now again the question of a trip to Rostov or Astrakhan has arisen,» says Veta. «What worries me is: why can my daughter get the drug in Rostov and Astrakhan at any time she arrives, but not in Volgograd?»

According to Veta, her daughter is registered at Clinic No. 2 in the Krasnooktyabrsky District. However, the woman says the medication is, for some reason, not available at the medical facility«s pharmacy. The last time the girl received it was in September.

V1.RU is checking with the regional health committee to see if there is a problem with a shortage of this medicine and when the girl will be able to receive it.

Previously, a pensioner with total intestinal damage was deprived of subsidized medicines in the Sredneakhtubinsky district. 61-year-old Valentina Pashchenko was forced to buy expensive drugs out of her own pocket for six months just to survive. After the V1.RU publication, the patient was invited to see a doctor, sent for examination, and on the very first day of hospitalization, she began receiving the necessary medication.