The members of the Tenerife Diabetes Association (ADT) are concerned about the imminent holiday departure from the only pediatric doctor specializing in diabetes at the Canary Islands University Hospital (HUC), to the point that they have started a campaign in Change.Org with the aim of sending the Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands Government at least 500 signatures requesting the urgent hiring of a second specialist.
As details the manager of the ADT, Francisco Darias, it is a request that dates back several years ago, although in April this year the positions approached."The HUC Management argues that for its part there is no inconvenience in hiring a second specialist such as the Candelaria hospital, but that has no funds to do so, so we meet with the directors of the Canarian health service and withThe assistance programs and told us that they were going to value it, without any response in this regard, "explained Darias, who recognizes that for the parents" time is already over and or hired someone immediately or there will be noNo specialist for children who have to go to review or enter for emergencies. "
Darias assures the day, that around 200 children with diabetes have and should go to this hospital every three and four months for their periodic reviews and controls and that every year about twenty new cases of children with diabetes (debut) areattended by this center."Children with diabetes who must attend HUC have increased much after this hospital assumed patients in the northern zone and the only pediatrician who is currently trained to serve these minors also has among their obligations to attend to othersChildren with other pathologies, "says Darias, who says that" there are specialists in children's diabetes who have had to go out of Tenerife for not getting employment in public health. "
However, the ADT manager clarifies that it does not mean that children who enter are not treated."There are other pediatricians, but they do not have a specific training and, therefore, when the one who does have it is limited to follow the protocols and that usually means that a child remains much longer admitted than normal."
