The Navarra Association of Diabetes, Anadi, has held a meeting with the president of Parliament, Ainhoa Aznárez, to present a series of claims that have been doing in the last legislatures and that are having some difficulties for its implementation.These claims affect different areas such as work, health or educational, and hope that after the change in forces in Parliament there will be an impulse to the statement that was already approved in 2007.
This referred to the need to meet the objectives of the declaration of St. Vincent of 1989 and subsequent international agreements, related to this statement, related to infant-juvenile diabetes.In this sense, the president of Anadi, Juantxo Remón, and the entity's social worker, Myriam Flores, have explained that there are still many claims that have to be solved, "such as the discrimination of these people in access to some school canteens whereprevents them from eating, or discrimination in access to some places of the public function. "
In this sense, they have expressed the need for the medical exclusions that are carried out in some access tests to some administration bodies are "individualized, and not to be excluded from the base of the call itself," explained Myriam Flores.
The entity, which was created in 1983, has about 700 members, and its president Juantxo Remón, explained to Ainhoa Aznárez that "the projects that are carried out and the claims are for the entire group of affected people, as well as for thesociety in general ".
Among the different projects and activities carried out are: the Social Intervention Service;psychological service;the Dibetological Education project for children with diabetes;self -help groups;Information, awareness and social dissemination;and sport and diabetes.This year and on the occasion of International Diabetes Day, on November 14, Parliament will host two talks, on the 12th and 14th with different themes around this disease.