In US, diabetics turn to black market or Canada for life-saving insulin | Malay Mail

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MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 30 — On a frosty January morning in a Minneapolis suburb, Abigail Hansmeyer leaves her car engine running and takes out a brown paper bag carrying needles and a vial, handing it over to its recipient in an anonymous shopping centre parking lot. The exchange is technically...

Thursday, 30 Jan 2020 08:00 PM MYT

“Thank you so much,” says Annette Gentile, 52, as she takes the bag from Hansmeyer, checking the labels and doses. “I’ve been on a roller coaster in the last few days,” she adds, because of her elevated blood sugar levels. People who have it need to inject themselves with insulin several times a day for the rest of their lives.

They joined the ranks of the 27.5 million Americans without coverage, praying that no calamity befell them.A few years ago, when she won a battle against her then insurer for an insulin pump, a computerised device that continuously releases the right amount of the hormone, she remembers crying with happiness.Hansmeyer acts as a go-between for her community of Minneapolis area diabetics, connecting those in need with those who have.

 

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