Health suppresses diabetes consultations for flu a
Patients denounce that they have many obstacles to access diabetic strips and that the pediatric consultation of the faith is supersaturated
Pilar G. Del Burgo Valencia
The changes of consultations and the reorganization of spaces that have begun to be done in the health centers to have rooms in which to administer the flu vaccine A has meant the suppression of the programmed control and monitoring consultations of patients with diabetes type diabetes2 (Those who do not need insulin when debuting in the disease), as reported yesterday by the Valencian Association of Diabetes who reminded the health responsible for diabetes with a balance of ten thousand dead a year is the seventh cause of death in Spain.
To this sad reality is added the fact that patients who come to the centers that depend on the Clinical Hospital and the Arnau Hospital have found "important obstacles to the dispensation of reactive strips", which are essential for the good management of the disease.
The Association has denounced that the pediatric endocrinology consultations of the La Fe hospital are oversaturated with patients and that there are and the important lack of material resources and health personnel.
"The imminent transfer to the new hospital, far from creating optimism, generates more doubts for its required management and specialization," adds the entity that reiterates that in the diabetes units lack of specialized nursing personnel and 100% dedicated to 100% to diabetological education.
The association's directive recalls the breach of the promise of President Camps that in its electoral program said that there would be podious attention for these patients.Two years later everything is a chimera.
Another complaints of the entity is the waiting list in the prescription of the insulin pump, since only three hospitals of the public network are offered.
The version of Laconselleria de Health
The head of the Diabetes Plan of the Department of Health, Doctor Catalá, who works at the Clinical Hospital, yesterday denied this newspaper that diabetes consultations in the health centers have been suspended.The expert was surprised that the association did not transfer the malaise of the patients and was surprised by the challenge of complaints.Regarding the difficulty of accessing reactive strips, he said that it is what is collected in the protocol that established the Diabetes Committee eight months ago
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