This initiative, whose facilities are in the Jaén hospital complex and has the collaboration of the Clinical Management Units of Endocrinology and Vascular Surgery, has been presented by the Territorial Delegate of Equality, Health and Social Policies, Teresa Vega, which hasState accompanied by the act by the directors-governments of the Hospital Complex of Jaén, José Luis Salcedo, and of the health districts Jaén and Jaén Sur, Eduardo Sánchez, and of the President of the Association of Diabetics of Jaén (ADEN), Celia Quirós.
This initiative allows patients to be derived by family doctors will be seen in a unique act consultation by endocrine and vascular surgeons.To do this, from the Ministry of Health "we have defined some derivation criteria, which are incorporated into the comprehensive diabetes process and that optimize coordination between primary and hospital care to offer the patient comprehensive and quality health care," heThe delegate of Health.
In this sense, Vega has detailed that family doctors will derive to the hospital complex of the capital of Jiennense, to be attended immediatein one of the two.
"The main benefits of this new benefit for these patients are the rapidity of hospital assistance, so amputations of their damaged limbs will be avoided, in addition that control of their metabolism will be improved and other complications caused byDiabetes, "Vega said.
On the other hand, the territorial delegate has indicated that this new service will begin to pilot together with two health centers of the capital of Jiennense, Virgen de la Capilla and Belén, before extending to the rest of the health centers of the province of Jiennense progressively, which will work together with the professionals of the public hospital of Jaén."This new consultation, which is located on the second floor of the diagnostic center of the Jaén hospital complex, will attend between 100 and 130 new patients each year," he said.
Finally, Vega recalled that the diabetic foot is a pathology that affects one in four patients with diabetes and consists of a serious complication that affects the functionality of blood circulation in the foot and that can end in a surgical intervention.
The Public Health System of Andalusia addresses important health problems, due to its frequency or severity, through what is known as comprehensive plans.
In the case of diabetes, according to Teresa Vega, with the aim of developing better attention to people with diabetes, or at risk of suffering from it, a comprehensive diabetes plan has been developed in Andalusia, which is updated in a wayPeriodic, which arose with the purpose of better coordinating available resources and health actions around diabetes.
"Its evaluation has shown that it is a valid and effective strategy and, therefore, a second plan has been designed to address the areas of improvement detected and that has meant an important impulse to interventions with which we are obtaining very good results," heoutstanding.
In this line, the territorial delegate has indicated that a very important objective within the framereference.