Specialized and individualized formation in diabetes helps to greatly reduce the complications associated with the disease and, therefore, the costs of its approach.
In fact, it is estimated that an adequate diabetological education would reduce by more than 2,000 million euros the expenses derived from its bad control.An education of the patients in which associations play a fundamental role, which is why the Spanish Diabetes Federation (FEDE), a member of Somos Patients, claims the "prescription of associationism" by the National Health System (SNS)To work hand in hand with health professionals specialized in the disease.
As Ernesto Valdés, president of the Regional Murcia Federation of Diabetic Associations (FREMUD), explains, “associations, according to public health, must participate in a personalized, quality and taught diabetological education of professionals with specialized curriculumIn diabetes.
And it is that associations are the best way through which patients manage to fight for their rights as a collective and be heard by the administration.Therefore we ask for their inclusion and prescription by the SNS so that they can work together for the group and that their work reaches all those who still do not know them ”.
Diabetological education remains a pending subject in all autonomous communities.A lack that causes, even today, patients revealing the lack of individualized training, as well as the difficult access to the resources, materials and treatments that would allow them to address the needs of their diabetes and, thus, to enjoy being able to enjoyof the same quality of life as the rest of the population.
the Murcia example
In this context, the case of the Region of Murcia constitutes a good example for the rest of the country.Not surprisingly, it is one of the first communities in which it was achieved, after the incessant claim by the FREMUD, access to glucose monitoring systems for people with type 2 diabetes (DM2).All this without forgetting the campaigns developed by the Federation for the detection of those DM2 patients who have not yet been diagnosed.
Much of the FREMUD success is explained by its work hand in hand with the Regional Advisory Committee on Diabetes, composed of the Murcian Health Service Manager, health professionals and representatives of patient associations.
An advisory body that, says Fede, “would be useful in all regions, while reinforcing the work of diabetes associations, and has one more space through which to continue fighting to achieve measures that promote early detection, proper control of pathology and a diabetological education, three fundamental pillars for people with pathology to count and enjoy a good quality of life. ”