The project was promoted in 2013 by a group of women from different parts of the country and promoted by the national senator Ernesto Sanz.From now on, social and prepaid works are obliged to cover one hundred percent of medicines.

Finally, the new Law on Protection of Persons with Diabetes was regulated, unanimously sanctioned on November 27, 2013. This rule modifies the legislation that was in force since 1988. From now on, social works and prepaid medicine companiesThey should provide with a hundred percent coverage the necessary supplies and medications for the treatment of diabetes patients.

These benefits must also reach people who are not attached to the National Health Insurance System, so the provinces must implement the corresponding measures to ensure that it is fulfilled.

The law was possible due to the intense work of various entities that bring together patients with diabetes throughout the country and the promotion of the national senator Mendoza Ernesto Sanz, which shapes these demands through a project.

From now on, about 3 million Argentines suffering from this disease, considered the tenth cause of death, will receive comprehensive care, which includes not only the medical and pharmacological aspects of recovery, but also an integral coverage that adds social, labor nuancesand educational.

This means that added to the provision of medicines must be considered measures to disclose the problem through specific detection and awareness campaigns, among other points.

scope

One of the most important benefits of the so -called Diabetes Law is that it contemplates the 100% coverage in medicines and diagnostic reagents for self -control, in the necessary amounts and according to medical prescription.The provision of insulins of different types, continuous infusion pump of insulin, oral antidiabetics, the device and reactive strips for self -control.

It also includes the coverage of social and prepaid works, which must be updated every two years to include technological advances.These modifications to coverage become part of the mandatory medical benefits system (PMO), which forces providers to fulfill them unfailingly.

It also points to a more comprehensive approach, since beyond the health medical issue, what is raised is a social, labor and educational coverage of diabetes patients.

"This is a great triumph to improve the quality of life of citizens and it is our duty to fight for an extension of rights and guarantee social inclusion," said Sanfaelino Ernesto Sanz, who presented with senators Gerardo Moralesand Silvia Elías de Pérez a letter addressed to President Cristina Fernández requesting the urgent regulation since "health cannot wait, it is an inalienable right of human beings to have a decent life," they said.

promoted by various social organizations

The new Diabetes Law was mainly possible for the impulse that the issue charged from different social fronts throughout the country.Ombudsmen of the People, non -governmental organizations and innumerable campaigns disseminated through social networks served as a lever so that the political class did not look aside to a problem that affects the quality of life of about 3 million Argentines.

The Civil Organization of Córdoba New Diabetes Association (Nadia) was one of those who had an active presence in Congress achieving the support of some 150 thousand people who claimed via the Internet using the popular Change.org platform.

As told in an interviewNydia Ferhat, president of this association, a mother of a young man with diabetes, a domestic employee of a Legal Legislator, facilitated a first contact between Nadia and the senators who put together a project and were shaped like forming from the legislative articles that Nadia Le Nadiaproposed to the different advisors.Later the project was promoted by National Senator Ernesto Sanz.It was approved in November 2013 and was missing that it was finally regulated to be able to apply.

► "It is a great triumph to improve the quality of life of citizens and it is our duty to fight for an extension of rights and guarantee social inclusion” (Ernesto Sanz, UCR National Senator)

►3 million Argentines is the strip to which this new law of diabetes regulated by unanimity in the Chamber of Deputies helps.

Awareness

The law contemplates the execution of campaigns to raise public awareness about the aspects of the disease.

Specific detection and dissemination measures on the problem must be made.