The Valencian Association of Diabetes (AVD) has reported that the Department of Health will distribute a 'kit' with injection material for children with diabetes of the Valencian Community, consisting of 300 needles, 50 lancets and an educational manual.
Members of this entity have gathered today representatives of the Department of Health to address, among other issues, the suppression and restriction of reactive blood glucose strips, according to an AVD statement.
According to the association, the material included in the 'kit' is designed for a duration of three months "but the number of needles it contains can last for two months to a child who injected insulin 5 or 6 times a day."
The association has indicated that 25,400 people have already signed an hour of protest that claims education in diabetes and that the blood glucose reactive strips are not suppressed for patients with diabetes of type I and II.
In this sense, according to the AVD, during the meeting the representatives of the Department of Health have informed them that the slogan of the slogan of restricting or withdrawing the strips were not given to primary care doctors.
The Ministry, according to the sources, have promised to clarify to primary care doctors that the manual "adequate use of blood glucose reactive strips in patients with diabetes mellitus" does not indicate the suppression of reactive strips for patients with patients with patients withType II diabetes.
In addition, they will remind the doctors that in the same manual there are exceptions that allow prescribing reactive strips to patients who require it.
The association expects that in this way "the false idea that was spreading among users that the strips were no longer in insurance" disappears. "
According to sources, the Ministry has also expressed interest in improving medical care and monitoring of diabetes, especially in the pediatric field, with the HBA1C analyzes that will no longer be performed intravenously, but will takecarried out through capillary glycemia.
As for the pediatricians involved "they will be given specific training to guarantee an early detection of pathology and better follow -up to children already diagnosed," according to AVD.
During the meeting, the director of the Diabetes Plan, Miguel Catalá, has pledged to collaborate in obtaining doctors for the "Dolce Vita 2011" camp for children with diabetes that the AVD performs annually, according to the association inThe statement.
Finally, the AVD has indicated that the increase in cases of diabetes in the Community, where 14 percent of the Valencians have the disease, "makes it essential to increase the resources, initiatives and investment for treatment, as well as monitoring andPrevention
