When diabetes has become your child's travel companion, the greatest need that this experiences is to feel accompanied, knowing that there is someone unconditionally by their side before their mood changes, their ups and downs, and the demands and demands and demands and demands andDiscipline of this pathology.
For the child with diabetes, especially at an early age, the diagnosis can cause a great impact on its development, since there is fear of feeling rejected by others before this new reality that is now part of their day to day.
Today, in Spain 30,000 children under 15 have diabetes, who need to perform glycemia measurements every day to have good control of their pathology.
When these controls have to be carried out during childhood, parents are main responsible, but when children go to the nursery or school they face, despite their young age, to situations that must be treated daily by people whoAt that time they are in charge.
However, today, in the largest of the AA CC there is no regulations that force educational centers to take responsibility for the attention of this group;It all depends on the will of teachers and schools that sometimes are reluctant to get involved in this and other aspects of their attention.
In our country, the exception is the Valencian Community, which is the only region that has a regulation that establishes the guarantee of the law of minors, through the obligation to establish a clear procedure of collaboration between the health administration and the educational administration,To facilitate the most suitable care response to the school process of students suffering from chronic diseases and specifying specific health care.
As regards the rest of CC AA, there is still nothing in this regard, but progress has been made, since in most of them there are protocols for the child's performance in school.
For just giving an example, Balearic Islands have developed such a document, which allows children to have specific attention within the classrooms, with a specific training of teachers, where there is the specific didactic and sanitary material and whereThere is also a census of affected minors.
But not being mandatory comply with one of the main claims of the Spanish Diabetics Federation (Fede) remains that there is a regulation in all CC AA, so that in school our children our children have the health care they need.
And in this sense, it is noteworthy that I was the promoter of the first protocol in Spain on diabetes in schools, and responsible for the "proposition of the law to improve care in schools to children with diabetes and allergiesto food and latex », which represents an example to follow.
ARTICLE OF: ANDONI LORENZO
