Health guarantees the ten models of diabetics strips

"The supply is guaranteed."In these terms, sources from the Ministry of Health after the meeting held yesterday between the Minister Ángeles Palacios and the manager of the Regional Diabetics Association of Murcia and a member of the Regional Murcia Federation of Diabetics (Fremud), Silvia Serrano Ayala.

The Ministry finally made the decision to "get off" of the initiative of the Ministry of Health, which intended to centralize the purchases of reactive strips through the National Institute of Health Management (Ingesa).Such a decision was adopted because "a plurality of awardees was not guaranteed and many autonomous communities had been collected."In fact, only the region, La Rioja and Extremadura remained, "and competitive prices were not guaranteed."

In this way, Health has renewed contracts with the five laboratories that currently provide ten models of reactive strips for glucose control, depending on the diabetic profile.This decision attaches "the concern" that had aroused the centralized purchase among the 200,000 diabetics in the region (14% of the population).Ayala settled that "this has been possible thanks to the pressure of diabetic associations."

Juas.
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Total, which guarantee that there are strips for 5 commercial houses but to the rest they are given.
Abbott, Lifescan, Roche, Menarini and Bayer.

What about Sanofi's glucometers (Ibg Star? And Lisubel? Or the glycal? Or the Touch in?

Is that really a good management of patient associations?

The issue is more complicated.
The 5 greats enter because they accept the economic conditions of the contest (look, as in the centralized purchase).
Then the hospital market and health centers are worked.
But more or less a minimum are guaranteed and all survive within their possibilities.

In the Ingesa they only guaranteed 1 laboratory and with prices 30% cheaper.

Get your own conclusions.