Under the evocation “There can be no municipal development without promoting equity in access to health” recently, the Nuremberg-San Carlos twinning association, from the department of Río San Juan in alliance with Movicáncer Nicaragua, celebrated two and a half years, developing Psychosocial support activities for women with cancer and children with hemato-oncological diseases.

There is treatment, but only in the capital Currently, in this region of the country, there are more than 14 women with cervical and breast cancer, and about 36 children with hemato-oncological diseases who need specialized treatment to increase their hope of surviving the disease. cancer.

Despite the efforts of the Ministry of Health, the lack of resources and specialized personnel in the local hospital of San Carlos makes it necessary to move patients, many of whom come from very poor communities with difficult geographical access, which It constitutes a double challenge to achieve access to cancer treatment only if they manage to reach the national reference hospitals.

Due to these limitations, many women did not even try to seek treatment for their cancer, when it came to traveling from communities, which in many cases, involved traveling about 10 hours by collective bus from San Carlos to Managua, the capital of Nicaragua; which forced the peasant woman or mother of a child with a hemato-oncological disease to seek sufficient funds, which mostly implied economic indebtedness, ruin and in some cases family disintegration.

A face of solidarity

For many women with cancer and mothers of children with hemato-oncological diseases, this access to the necessary treatment could not be possible without the help provided by the citizens of Nuremberg-Germany through Movicáncer, who has been developing strategies for more than three years cancer control and access to early treatment in conjunction with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health.

Thanks to this type of alliance, access to treatment has been supported for 43 patients from this area of ​​the country, which translates into a total of 98 displacement in order to help them get to where they can receive the treatment they need to adhere to life, favoring the non-abandonment of treatment and, therefore, hope for a cure”, expressed Mr. Benito Martínez Granera, head of the Department of education and outreach for cancer prevention at Movicáncer.

For more information on how you can help, you can contact info@movicancer.org.ni