“I need this medication to survive, I never would have thought they would hit me with a no,” she added.
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She reaffirmed her determination to continue her fight: “I want to live.”
Djeme-Mi Koumazock also raised questions about fairness across the province: “Why, between two Quebecers, could one have access to this medication and not me?”
Medical specialists confirmed that switching medications is necessary when preliminary lines of treatment fail.
“When the medication we are giving stops [working] … and we lose the control, we have to change the treatment,” said Dr. Brigitte Poirier, surgical oncologist at CHU de Québec-Université Laval.
Poirier emphasized the medical team's goal to support young patients with families: “It’s not easy for someone [who is] like 43 years old with young kids.
We want to give them time.”
Official channels noted the rarity of double insurance denials within the province.
“It’s very unlikely that two different insurers refuse to reimburse a medication that RAMQ would accept to cover and, to our knowledge, a situation of this kind has never been brought to our attention,” said a RAMQ representative.
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To afford the medication, Djeme-Mi Koumazock and her partner are dipping into their personal savings while awaiting a secondary insurance decision from her partner's provider, Beneva.
