AVD will deliver 25,000 signatures to ask for more education

The Valencian Association of Diabetes (AVD) will deliver more than 25,000 Valencian signatures that claim "more education" for people affected by this disease and a "decent treatment" next Friday at the Department of Health.

According to an AVD statement, the entity claims an education and treatment that allows them to control their sugar levels to avoid "the expensive complications caused by poorly controlled diabetes: blindness, amputations, vascular accidents or dialysis, among others."

The Ministry published in February of last year some recommendations, "which in practice have left without self -control strips or with severe restrictions at 90 percent of people with type 2 diabetes," according to the association.

"Although the Department continues to ensure that they have not retired and that the intention of the manual is 'educating' so as not to waste in crisis, the reality is that in the health centers the reactive strips with the slogan are not prescribedof 'savings', "he said.

In the opinion of the Association, "the sugar controls that for health were important to assess the effects on food and treatment changes, now do not seem necessary, regardless of the circumstances of each patient."

According to AVD, the Association of Diabetes Educators of the Valencian Community announced the data of a study on diabetes education in this autonomy in which the average time dedicated in each educational intervention in health centers is 15Minutes, in 19 minutes specialties and in 35 -minute hospitals.

In addition, in the centers where there is an educator, "there is no substitution if the activity is interrupted by vacations or illness."

The AVD has assured that it does not understand "this brutal cut with reactive strips because of all direct expenses generated by diabetes, which is a lower percentage (3-4 %) is the derivative of consumables: syringes, feathers for feathersand reactive strips. "

"In addition, of all estimated expenses, the largest item goes to hospitalizations, corresponding to this percentage 4.7 % to revenue due to acute diabetes complications and 37.4 % to chronic complications of the disease," he addsThe association.

In the Valencian Community, more than 800,000 Valencians suffer from this disease, the highest prevalence in Spain, and in 2009 poorly controlled diabetes was the cause of more than 10,000 deaths in Spain.