I post here (I did not know where I would go better) an article that comes out today in the newspaper Las Provinces, signed by a "my acquaintance": D:
World Diabetes Day, which we celebrate every November 14, is the most important diabetes information campaign in the world.Its objective is to advertise the causes, symptoms, treatment and complications associated with the disease.
It is a good time to review what is the attention to this disease qualified by the UN as Pandemia, whose data, by themselves, scares.
In the Valencian Community, it is suffered by 13.9% of the total population, that is, almost 700,000 people.Around 1500 boys and girls under 18 suffer from the disease in our region.
40% of those affected, 280,000 people, are unknown to their illness, which causes it to diagnose more than half already suffer a complication directly related to diabetes.
Diabetes is one of the main causes of death in Spain, with ten thousand deaths annually.It is the first cause of non -traumatic amputations, the first cause of blindness due to non -hereditary factors, the main cause of dialysis and one of the large causes of vascular stroke.
In sanitary costs, diabetes is the cause of 5% of health expenditure, mainly due to the medical complications it causes.
Is patient care with diabetes adequate in our region?
The M.H.President Camps promised in his electoral program "Implement Podiatric Care Plans to the Diabetic Patient."Today we do not have news of this impulse to an imperative need, which still without appearing in the common services catalog, is collected by various Spanish autonomies.
The recent approval of the Health Rights Law of the Boy and Adolescents of the Valencian Community, comes to ensure the full educational development of children with chronic diseases (such as diabetes) under the same conditions as any other child, we hope that our needs will be met in the imminent regulatory development.
In the Valencian Community we do not have any day hospital dedicated to the patient with diabetes, despite the electoral promise of "establishing in the entire community the unique visit consultations in specialized care, in order to improve and reduce the needof multiple displacements of patients. "
The enormous need we have patients with coordinated interconsultation diabetes and collaboration between different health specialists (gynecology, podiatry, psychology, ophthalmology, nephrology ...) to date is a beautiful utopia, which hopes that the little ones can enjoy inA future.
Currently, the review and control of most patients with type 2 diabetes involves attending a month to perform a digital fasting glymia in the health center.This monthly control is unusable for good glycemic control (as repeatedly indicatedMeritoria of some family and nurses doctors.
Despite the electoral promise of "developing the scope of shared follow -ups Primary Care -specialized action, in those welfare episodes that are feasible, thus enhancing the prominence of the family doctor."There is no programming, coordination or real communication between primary care and specialized care in diabetes, unless individual initiatives of one and another.
HEIt insists on the need to reduce health spending in fungible material (putting the health of patients at risk, as happened two years ago with needles for insulin feathers) without facing the main deficiency in patient care with diabetes: theDiabetological Education
In primary care there are no established or developed programs specifically in diabetes education.The figure of the diabetes educator is non -existent, except outstanding individual cases.
In specialized care, there are educational nurses in diabetes, but their number and material resources are immensely far away from what is desirable and recommended.
Socially and labor, diabetes remains mired in ignorance and discrimination in access to a job, the care of children with this disease, the recognition of disability certificates and degree of dependence, or simply to be able to renew the permission ofdrive.
On November 14, diabetes has been news in all media, the remaining 364 days should serve for the Consell and the different political parties to work together with scientific societies, health professionals and patients with the aim of fulfilling in a decisive and effective wayThe pandemia of the 21st century.