The Center for Nutrition and Diabetes, New Service for Meridans

With an integral and innovative approach, the City of Mérida through the Municipal DIF will open a new space to provide health services to the Meridans: the Center for Nutritional Care and Diabetes.The objective will be to offer better attention to the population in health, especially in regard to nutrition, diabetes and hypertension.

Before representatives of institutions, civil organizations and population in general, Mayor Renán Barrera and the president of the Municipal DIF Diana Castillo de Barrera presented the project that endorses the commitment to seek the integral development of families and consolidates the human face policy of thisadministration.

This morning, in the presentation of the project of the new center, Mayor Renán Barrera Concha said that the municipal DIF is one of the areas of greatest contact with the needs of the Meridans in the field of human development and that is why the City Council has reinforced and expandedThe tasks of that institution.

He pointed out that Cemanud's work will be innovative, since it will focus exclusively on prevention through nutritional programs that reduce conditions of conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, as well as its complications.

Also, he said, it will contribute to the promotion of breastfeeding and the optimal development of children taking care of their growth and food “with the implementation of CEMANUD, the City Council of Mérida opens a new opportunity for the improvement of the quality of life of the Meridanos”He said.

—In addition, the attention of diabetes, hypertension and the sufferings or complications associated with these diseases will no longer be a reason for economic troubles for Meridan families, because in Cemanud they will find the necessary attention and guidance to avoid them, he added.

The new Cemanud space will work in a building that will be rehabilitated for this purpose, located on 64th Street between 61 and 63, behind the Municipal Palace and will begin to provide services in October;For this new space, the municipality will invest 3 million 700 thousand pesos.

Barrera Concha said that by investing in that center, the City Council will achieve in the medium term, in the meridan positive effects on life expectations, productivity, family economy and tranquility of the meridan families.

In her message, the president of the Municipal DIF said that since the beginning of the current administration, the agency assumed the commitment to work to improve the living conditions of the Meridan families.

He emphasized that the first axis of the Municipal Development Plan is a human face, which has among its objectives reduce the inequality of people in poverty and vulnerability through institutional programs in health, education, social infrastructure and housing.

He said that among the strategies to achieve the above is to promote active participation, conscious and committed to the different community sectors for personal, family and community development in health.In addition, we support two of the millennium objectives that are: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and improve maternal health, he added.

He pointed out that according to the Pan American Health Organization, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases directly affect the economy of Latin American countries and perpetuate the circle of poverty.

- From our work we have observed how food, in short, is essential for health and to contribute to a better quality of life we ​​create the platform "If you eat well, you feel good", a comprehensive nutrition improvement program that alsoPromotes the family economy.

Indicated thatGiven the success and good results, as well as the potential of that platform, they decided to make it grow and expand their horizons, which is specified with the Municipal Center for Nutritional and Diabetes Care.

—This Center is born also inspired by one of the principles that guide the administration of Renán Barrera Concha: the principle of subsidiarity, which is nothing other than the obligation of a humanistic government to intervene there where there is a need that is not being sufficientlysatisfied

The Municipal Center for Nutritional and Diabetes Care will aim that families that are in a situation of vulnerability receive clinical and nutritional attention that favor their status of health and quality of life, he said.

—To we take a transcendent step to reduce the levels of obesity and diabetes that make us occupy the first places of these conditions.

- Once again, government and society we will work together to seek the common good and continue building a merida for all.

During the presentation, in charge of Ileana Fajardo Niquete, head of the DIF Nutrition Department, it was announced that the Cemanud will directly benefit public and private schools with which nutritional interventions have been made, patients with diabetes, womenIn a period of breastfeeding or wanting to practice it, civil associations that can channel their beneficiaries, universities, associations, cameras and schools, with research projects, social service and professional practices.

Among the benefits of the center are to offer decent spaces to provide quality services to citizens, decentralize the services of the municipal DIF, reduce citizen attention response times, raise the number of services, increase the number of beneficiaries by 50 percent.

Its lines of action are health promotion, work in community canteens, nutrition consultations, detection of disease -related diseases, comorbidities prevention, educational communication, channeling, monitoring and monitoring of cases, comprehensive care for patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patients with patientsDiabetes, breastfeeding program.

The director of the municipal DIF, Gabriela González Prieto gave the administrative and technical explanation of the project.The presentation of the center was also attended by Claudia Durán González, president of the Mexican Southeast Diabetes Federation;Yukary Rodríguez Góngora, president of the Mexican College of Nutritional Chapter Yucatán.

The event was present representatives of civil associations and state agencies, and the Directors of Social Development, Julio Sauma Castillo;Economic Development, Felipe Riancho Cámara;Major Officer, Mario Martínez Laviada;Regidores Marisol Gómez García, Yahayra Ceballos Centeno, Felipe Duarte Ramírez, Juan Barea Canul, Lolbé Carrillo Jiménez, Paloma Angulo Suárez, the Liczbeth Estradorio Osorio Osorio and the municipal secretary Alejandro Iván Ruz Castro.