Associations created an observatory to be vigilant that rights are not violated.
As cancer is the second cause of death in the country, the associations for the fight against this disease reject the total veto of the Organic Health Code (COS).
According to these organizations, their rights have been in limbo, because the document allowed cancer patients to access a temporary disability card, as well as prevented people with this disease from being fired from their jobs while cancer treatment lasts.
Diego Jimbo, coordinator of the Agreement Against Cancer, promoted an article in the COS that established the genetic diagnosis of the disease, a procedure that would serve to prevent and reduce the number of fatalities.
He said that if the disease is detected in stage one it means that the vast majority of cases will be able to treat them, but this issue remained in Article 219, which was aimed at high-risk people.
Another article dealt with comprehensive cancer care, whereby people with this ailment were to be treated under a condition of disability that would have allowed them to access a card.
In the workplace, patients would have been given leave for medical treatment, without being fired from their jobs.
If the COS had been approved, another benefit that cancer patients would have had access to is emotional support and playful accompaniment.
But despite the veto issued by President Lenín Moreno, cancer fighting groups have set up a nationwide observatory to ensure that their rights are fulfilled.
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