Tratamiento farmacológico de la enfermedad de Parkinson: un costo que se debe enfrentar / Pharmacologic treatment of the Parkinson`s disease: a cost that may be confronted

At the Rancagua Hospital 49 patients carriers of Parkinson`s disease are monthly assisted. The treatment consists in the use of trihexiphenidyl and/or levodopa.plus benserazide and/or bromocriptine. The average monthly cost is $10.610, amount that is far from being possible to be borne by SNSS beneficiary patients. A cost projection for the treatment of this pathology in the Sixth Region in performed