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| About half in NM’s prisons have hep C |
| By abqjournal.com- Deborah Baker |
| Published: 12/31/2015 |
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SANTA FE – About half of New Mexico’s prison inmates have hepatitis C, and corrections officials are seeking millions of dollars to treat some of them with new, more effective – and expensive – drugs. The Department of Corrections is asking the Legislature for $10 million to supplement the current year’s budget and another $2.4 million for the budget year that begins July 1, 2016. There are over 3,000 inmates with hep C infection in Corrections Department custody, officials told the Legislative Finance Committee recently. The requested extra funding would only be enough to treat a fraction of them. Read More. |
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