Diabetes can become a barrier when getting a job.Or at least this is reflected in the example offered by the Government of Navarra, which has starred in several cases of labor discrimination by limiting access to places of the administration to people suffering from the disease, as reported from the Navarra Diabetes Association (Anadi)and the Federation of Spanish Diabetics (Fede).
Given this situation in repeated calls, the Foral Parliament has received a motion presented by the United Socialist Group and the United Left, appealing to a medical report of Occupational Health experts.However, the initiative has been rejected.
"The law goes behind reality"
In this regard, Andoni Lorenzo, president of Fede, claims that this pathology “ceases to be a barrier to labor insertion since medical, technical and training advances allow a self -control and a normal development of work activities.Once again, the law goes a step behind reality, and this must change, ”he denounces.
In this sense, the person responsible considers it necessary to develop a new legislation at the national level that guarantees “the labor incorporation without restrictions” of the more than 5 million people in Spain suffering from the pathology.
For his part, the president of Anadi, Juantxo Remón, explains that in certain work activities, such as police or firefighters, the Government of Navarra “prevents admission as a candidate for people with diabetes despite being trained to carry outThat work ", professing a" pure and hard discrimination. "
A medical report of the Endicronology and Nutrition Service of the Hospital Complex of Navarra accompanies the collective claims detailing that “diabetes should not be a general and initial reason for medical exclusion to opt for certain jobs” and advocates to assess each case of each case ofIndividual way taking into account the type of diabetes, treatment, degree of glycemic control, acute and chronic knowledge and complications to define whether a person is suitable or not stop that job.
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