03/20/2013
Letter to Monago
With the health of our children you do not play
Víctor M. León Castañeda
Cáceres
I write from the capital of Cacereña, and I do it as the father of a girl with diabetes mellitus of type 1, which has been almost dealing with this disease for a year;fighting with the day to day of an endocrine disorder that forces him to a continuous control of his glycemia, his diet and his physical activity;A vital and chronic control that does not prevent him from making a normal life but forces him to think every thing he does.Only the adaptation of a nine -year -old can explain that this continuous control has not affected their desire to laugh or their relationship with others.
The change that a diabetic debut causes in a kid, and therefore in his whole family, is enormous.Only families that have lived can understand it well, and our Extremadura for health service has a set of very high level professionals who provide indispensable help in these cases.That was so at least until now, because overnight the children of the Health Area of Cáceres have removed his endocrine pediatrician from the San Pedro de Alcántara hospital, and the parents of those children, the doctor who gave them, in addition to health coverage, the support that a professional must give in these cases, which sometimes goes beyond the strictly medical one.
As Extremadura, Mr. Monago, we know well what it is to have different services to those of the rest of the country.Let's not fool ourselves, for many things we have always been Spanish with less rights, with fewer opportunities.As Extremaduran, hard by nature, we are enduring unemployment shower, economic decrease, the destruction of our low business fabric, the request for purchasing power, the decrease in social measures;We are enduring our present and that our young people have to emigrate just like their grandparents did.We are hard and we endure a lot, but there are things for which parents are not willing to happen, not even the Extremaduran parents, and that sudden, unjustified, unfortunately and unjustly unjache to the doctor on which the health of our children depends largelyIt is one of those things.
We are not willing to accept the consequences that derive from a decision taken from the deep ignorance of the needs of these children, needs that only the qualified personnel that you have removed from the medium of a plumure can meet.We are not going to stay with a crossed arms while playing with the health of our little ones because the manager does not come out of accounts, or because you have to change a professional for another one more related to it is not known very well what.
Mr. Monago, talk to his Health Minister;Talk to the Health Management of Cáceres;Talk to the pediatrician of the San Pedro de Alcántara hospital, talk to the pediatric endocrinology professionals of the Badajoz or Plasencia hospitals;Talk to diabetic associations, those of Celiacs, or those of the rest of the patients of the endocrine system.Talk to whom he deems appropriate and take letters on this issue so that at the end of this delicate matter the right decision is made, the one that does not attempt against the health of our children.
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