AVD Denunciation Heal
According to an AVD statement, on February 10 Health presented the "Proper use of blood glucose reactive strips", a document for professionals who, according to this entity, is "full of exclusions and omissions" and raises "The elimination of reactive strips to patients with type 2 diabetes and treatment with pills. "
The association has assured that, according to official data in 2008, the Department of Health prescribed reactive strips to measure glucose only to less than half of patients with diabetes.
That year, according to the ADVD, 58,154,000 reactive strips were supplied to 132,144 patients, which means that each patient with diabetes consumed 1'2 reactive strips per day.
They also point out that 50% of consumption is made by patients with type 2 diabetes, and criticize that with the new "recommendations" they will see "their only self -control tool" disappear.
"The suppression of this instrument for patients is not accompanied by any other measure that palpates this potentially dangerous situation," they say in the statement.
These cuts, which also affect patients with type 1 diabetes and gestational diabetes, "are not accompanied by any measure that guarantees a better control of the disease or helps patients improve their self -control and prevent complications".
In addition, they criticize that the decision to suppress the reactive strips for the determination of blood glucose to type 2 patients, especially those treated with secretagogues due to the danger of hypoglycemia, "goes radically against most national and international consensus."
The Association also ensures that the Department of Health "is limited to preparing successive publications that do not improve patient care suffering from this disease and more and more cutting the human and material resources destined for this pathology," he adds.
In AVD's opinion, diabetological education is "non-existent in primary and very deficit care in specialized care, and there is no interest or plans to implement this service, despite being the 52nd objective of the Health Plan 2005-2009".
They also point out that the electoral promise of Francisco Camps is still "breached" to "implement Podic Diabetic Patient care plan."
In the case of patients with diabetic retinopathy, according to the association, "they are undergoing difficulties to be reviewed by specialists, deriving them towards a little trained primary care to attend their pathologies or performing ophthalmological reviews lacking care rigor."EFE