In the absence of a separate instance of public health institutions that provide advice to people with diabetes on Cozumel Island, a local entrepreneur and members of the Rotary Club, they work to do this a reality since on the island it is unknown what it isThe number of people suffering from this condition considered a health problem in Mexico and worldwide.
Alejandro Keb Franco, a member of the Rotary Club on the island, revealed that for about a year and a half the Mexican Association of Diabetes A.C.Chapter Cozumel, who was chaired by Lourdes Mayanin Cabrera Maldonado, disappeared.
The last estimate of Dr. Lourdes Cabrera is that between 2% and 4% of the population of the island suffers from this disease.
If the Census figure of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) of 2010 is taken that showed that the insula is inhabited by 79,535 people are estimated to be three thousand 181 people who deal with silent disease.
However, Alejandro Keb stressed that it is called precisely because many people do not even imagine that they suffer.
The Mexican Diabetes Federation A. C. indicates in its Internet portal that it has 19 associations throughout the country's geography and in Quintana Roo only the Mexican Association of Diabetes Chapter Cancun, A. C.
The Rotary said that there is an intention to provide this support and advice to diabetes patients.
He stated that a place where patients can be treated without having to go through the bureaucracy of attending public hospitals since it is about attending only diabetics and teaching them to live with their condition and controlling it tohave a better quality of life.