In Social Security they prefer to amputate diabetic patients, to provide prolonged treatment to save the limbs, because they find it too expensive.
This was stated by Alejandro Calvillo, director of The Consumer Power, indicating that in Mexico every year approximately 75 thousand amputations related to the condition are carried out.
“What do Social Security do with the diabetic foot?We have it documented and testified by people who have suffered this: in Social Security what is done with a diabetic foot is not to save it. Why?Because the process and treatment are very expensive and very prolonged, what they do is amputate, so we have around 75 thousand amputations every year due to diabetes. ”
The disease has generated an epidemiological emergency, as stated by the Ministry of Health.
“And we have no preventive policy.It is calculated at this time that one in two children born in Mexico, and is a study published in a scientific journal, will develop diabetes throughout your life. ”
Health collapse complaint
“Of the 10 million adults who have diabetes, 40% do not know they have diabetes.In the poorest communities people find out that they have diabetes because they have a sore in the foot, it does not close, goes to the doctor and says: 'Lord, you have a diabetic foot, ”said Alejandro Calvillo, director of the power of the power of the power of the power of the power of the power of the power of the power of the power of the power of the power of the power of the power of the powerConsumer.
The above was pointed out because it would be very expensive to save the diabetic foot.
He said that in 2000 more than 40 thousand deaths were recorded due to diabetes in the country and almost 100 thousand are now reported annually.That year the costs for obesity and overweight were around 35 billion pesos annually and now the figure shot at 150 billion.
Another difficulty that patients face is that popular insurance is not covering dialysis because it would absorb 80% of the budget.