In July 1983, promoted by Dr. Mirentxu Oyarzabal and her team of the Pediatric Endocrinology Unit of the Virgen del Camino Hospital, a group of about 20 families with boys or girls suffering from diabetes formed the Association of Parents of Infanta-Juvenile Diabetics ofNavarra, seed of the Navarra Association of Diabetes-Nafarroako Diabetes Elkartea, with more than 600 people today.
Thirty -five years later, the main objectives for which it was founded are "practically the same, because we follow the guidelines that occurred from the beginning, which was to help all people with diabetes, education, training and information", without forgettingof the training camp that in its 36 editions - they began a year before the association - "there has not been even once the president of the entity, Juantxo Remón, who pointed out, in this regard, which, in this regard.Every year they benefit from this service about 50 or 60 children with this pathology and their families.
To celebrate this event, Anadi yesterday organized an act in the Pamplona Cathedral in which they had the founding people of the Association, such as Conchi de Blas and Puy Irurzun, and paid tribute to the health team that promoted the project.The event, whose entry required invitation and for which the capacity of 150 people was filled, had Dr. Bernat Soria, professor of regenerative medicine, who reviewed the past, present and future of the investigation in his talk on the road to the healing ofDiabetes.
As Anadi recalled in a press release, in 1983 “a group of parents of minors with diabetes gathered to put their concerns in common and undertake a common path to support the affected minors, driven by Dr. Mirentxu Oyarzabal and herPediatric Endocrinology Unit of the Virgen del Camino Hospital ”.
After thirty -five years, this entity, formed at the beginning by about twenty families, has become “a reference for all people with diabetes and their families in this community, with about 600 associated people and offering support to the groupof people affected from its headquarters on Curia Street, ”he said.To do this, it offers a wide range of services in diabetological education, psychological and social care, training for adolescents and families; all of them with the aim of improving the quality of life and self -care of affected people and their families.
“In these years, since the Association we have worked and collaborated by joining efforts with the services of Endocrine and Pediatrics.We have created alliances with other entities, such as the Spanish Federation of Diabetes, Cocemfe Navarra, and we are active in the institutions that work for diabetes in our community, ”said Juantxo Remón, who added that“ the future challenges will always be to claim that peopleWith diabetes and their families have a good quality of life. ”
Homagesasí, at the event held yesterday were the vice president of the Spanish Diabetes Federation, Aureliano Ruiz, the managing director of the Navarro Health Service-Osunbidea, Óscar Moracho, and people who promoted the association.Anadi wanted to honor the work of the founders and, in addition to Mirentxu Oyarzabal, he recognized the nurses Maruja Aizpún, Marga Aliaga and Goretti Earthly.He also thanked the work of the doctor Alberto Sola, who “has been coming to the camps for 36 years”, by the advisor Iñaki Lorente, as well as the services of pediatrics and adult endocrinology “for all the task they do, especiallyTo educators, who teach us from diabetes, ”said Remón.A fundamental work, taking into account that self -care in this disease "is essential, because it is 24 hours a day 365 days," concluded its president since 2004.
