To raise funds for patients with highly complex diseases such as cancer, kidney failure, birth defects, heart disease, hemophilia and other ailments, which would therefore require a high cost of treatment, Intangible Solidarity Fund for Health (FISSAL) commence Thursday 3 to Saturday 12 June, a national public collection.
Under the slogan "Your contribution is Life", organized FISSAL this campaign that will benefit patients served in establishments of the Ministry of Health, and do not have the financial resources for treatment.
FISSAL executive secretary, Henry Maquera Colque, said the aid will be channeled through the bottom serving as the financial supplement Comprehensive Health Insurance (SIS), taking its own resources and the collaboration of public and private institutions, complex cases they need a fairly significant financial coverage.
He said that for the fourth time this collection is organized in solidarity, for which about 700 cans have been placed in Lima and Callao in different private companies and public institutions have joined in solidarity to support patients who are on the waiting list.
The fund finances treatments in excess of 25 000 to 88 suns and a thousand suns, helping patients who have an 80% chance to heal. Thus, a medical board of the Ministry of Health, Episcopal Conference and the Medical College of Peru evaluates the cases that can be benefited.
The treatments evaluated included intensive chemotherapy, surgery, transplants, valve changes, to be held in patients served in various health facilities.
Also have reported that more than 80 people from different regions of the country, from children to older adults on the waiting list, which as a whole need more than five million soles for treatment.
A collection have joined large corporations and institutions like the National Bank with all its branch network in Lima and Callao, Renzo Costa, Supermarkets Candy, Grupo Gloria, JR Lindley, AFP Integra, Bayer, Peruplast, Sherfarma, including institutions that have installed piggy solidarity to complement assistance to poor and extremely poor patients.
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- FISSAL
- FISSAL was created by Law 27656 (15.01.02) to "promote access to quality health services for the population excluded from it" it is a supplementary funding for the Integral Health Insurance for those benefits that it can not fully fund, and that is not served by any other branch office.
