To comprehensively attend the problem facing patients with diabetes, civil pensions of the State, through the Health Education Center, it promotes workshops called “conversation maps”, aimed at all the right -hand that suffers from type II diabetes.The course is taught, every Thursday, by a multidisciplinary team made up of the areas of Psychology, Nutriology, Physical Activity, Social Work, Nursing, Dentistry and Family Medicine.
The purpose of this training and coexistence at the same time, is that diagnosed people know all aspects related to their illness, physical, emotional and family complications they will face during treatment, but also the formulas to raise and maintain qualitylife;In addition, it offers emotional support and orientation in health care.
The model that develops civil pensions of the State covers not only the patient, since the informative workshop includes the participation of a relative, considering that it is a chronic-degenerative condition that affects the social environment of the patient and not only to their individuality.
One of the great challenges is not to let them reach collateral effects, because patients with controlled glucose have expectation and quality of life without limiting, says Elvira López Durán, coordinator of the Health Education Center.That is why not only clinical aspects of this disease are treated, but all the areas that may affect the patient, from emotional and family to social and labor.
49% of diabetic patients have hypertension and that increases the risk of side effects.The diabetic foot is one of the most common complications, with an annual incidence of 1 to 4 percent.They are followed by problems in the kidneys, which can lead to renal failure;Also affectation of the lungs, sight and heart.
The course "Diabetes Conversation Maps" is part of the early detection program and diabetic footing, which allows you to timely detect diabetic neuropathy and foot with the risk of injury, and thus reduce the amputation and recurrence rate of ulcers, and also identify in advance the loss of protective sensitivity on the feet.
This project is of enormous social importance to change and modify the lives of families, and in civil pensions we invest a lot in which the patient is informed, experts say.
For additional information or doubts, the health education center can be marked at number 4 29 13 30 with extension 14183.