The measure withdrew after the complaint of patients and doctors |For diabetics with repeated hypoglycemia it is the only way to have some metabolic control
The insulin bombs were at least a week in the air for the sanitary cuts that are advertised.They are devices that have inserted diabetics with bad insulin control, with repeated hypoglycemia and pregnant women with gestational diabetes.Catalan hospitals place a hundred bombs every year and last week all of them and manufacturers received the order to suspend these interventions, almenos, until July.10% of the expense had to be reduced.
He spread the alarm and outrage among patients, with an influential association, and among those responsible for diabetes in hospitals.In other autonomous communities the news was received with concern, but governments denied that this measure would be thought to be adopted.
On Friday the Diabetes Advisory Council met, in which specialists, patients and department of Salut analyze the issues that concern this disease.The president of the Council, the Chief Endocrinologist of Sant Pau, Josep Maria Pou, explained that this measure was a turn of eleven years, when patients had to pay it, and an unprecedented decision throughout Europe, where all countriesThey finance her."And it is also the chocolate of the parrot."
In Catalonia there are about 1,300 people who carry it and among all are an expense of between 400,000 and 600,000 euros a year.“The expense to serve the 900,000 diabetics we have is one hundred million a year.Greece has more insulin bombs than Spain! ”Says Dr. Pou.
"I had been preparing for months and two and a half years waiting for the infusor," explains a diabetic woman who day, does not suffer hypoglycemia that leave her disoriented or fainted, whichever who can damage the heart, retina, brain or kidney."To use the continuous insulin infusion pump you need a good education in diabetes and learn about food rations and their hydrates content, and know how to respond to changes in food," explains the candidate.The insulin pump would allow it to have a better metabolic control, something lost in recent years, because it maintains a basal insulin continuous level to avoid so dangerous downsually and injected into the supplementary organism with meals and depending on the patient's activity.
"Everything has been a misunderstanding," said Salut department now.The fault of panic, indignation and fear of what is coming with the cuts seems to have an economist of the Servei Català de la Salut who applied to the letter the announced 10% expenditure reduction."Each bomb prescription is absolutely evaluated and has its cost-benefit study," says the Diabetes Manager of the Clinic, Josep Vidal.
