Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS): uma reflexão acerca do direito de idosos ao acesso a medicamentos

Abstract

In many situations, users of the Unified Health System (SUS) who need medicines in public for the economic infeasibility of acquiring them, have difficulties in access to needed medicines for their treatment. Thus, this article aims to reflect on the right of the elderly to access to medicines in public health. It is noteworthy that, in many cases, since the manifestation requisitiva medication requested for more specific treatments, face to delay the solution of his case and the negative response of the state and economic weakness that undermines the personal sponsorship, there is no other way to citizens, but to get him judicially. So many older people who access the public health system does not have access to needed medicines for their treatment, needing recourse to judicial means individually to claim your delivery and ensure access to them. Although lacking the medicines requested by citizens to treat their illnesses, the state jointly with the health sector develop, implement, monitor and expand intersectoral public policies for access to medicines, thus avoiding judicial intervention in the management of the health sector. Points to the need for measures aimed at greater speed and efficiency to administrative procedures for the supply of medicines to the elderly population. In this sense, there is still that the search for structuring necessary and consistent with the social demands presents itself as a challenge for all of Brazilian society, aiming to streamline the administrative structure of government and expanding the qualifying system for the distribution of medicines.