The sensors, which allow to control glucose via mobile, will be available within an approximate period of two months.
Health centers will facilitate children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes between 4 and 18 years of age a new device that allows to control glucose levels through the mobile phone, without the need for the usual punctures on the finger.
The measure, announced at the end of February by the Ministry of Health, will benefit some 550 minors throughout the region, and will be launched over the next two months, once the last details were killed yesterday at a meeting in a meetingAmong the Director General of Health Assistance of the SMS, Roque Martínez, and the representatives of the Regional Federation of Diabetics Associations (FREMUD).
With the new device, reactive strips and punctures on the finger are replaced by sensors that are placed in the arm.To know the glucose level, you just have to bring the 'smartphone' closer, in which an application (LibreLink) must have been discharged that allows you to read and store the results.This information will allow parents to know the evolution of glucose, and will also be incorporated into the patient's electronic medical history, says Roque Martínez.
The endrocrinos will be responsible for prescribing these sensors.Parents will have to go to their health center to pick them up, and will be completely free.Each sensor has a market cost of 59.90 euros, and a duration of 14 days.Health will facilitate 26 of these devices for each child per year.
Murcia becomes the fourth autonomous community to incorporate this new technology into the public health system.Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha and the Basque Country already subsidize it.
The president of Fremud, Silvia Serrano, is confident that the measure begins to apply "immediately."Sources of the Ministry of Health explain that the protocols are already prepared, and that only the company gathers and has the sensors for the 550 patients between 4 and 18 years with type 1 diabetes in the region.Fremud asks that in the future the measure is extended beyond 18 years, "because diabetes does not end at that age."