Colibrí is a recently formed association for the patient with diabetes and his family.They are part of it, Carolina Brossio, Fernanda Menna, Sandra Di Croce, Mónica Fersen, Gustavo Leguizamón, Mariam Inchauspe, Amalia Fuentealba, Mara Redivo and Javier González.
The hummingbird is the symbol of diabetes, adopted as such by many associations and organizations on diabetes, for its particular relationship between sugar consumption and efficient metabolic control mechanism.The hummingbird depends so much on the nectar that for him a few hours without consuming it can be fatal, it is the only vertebrate capable of efficiently degrade sugar, glucose and fructose.
In our city "Colibrí, Help Diabetes Tres Arroyos", arises from a group of friends, diabetic patients.All those who are part of this group know from experience, or for being a family of people with diabetes that "change their lives and the way of facing the disease" as one of its members says to the voice of the people.
concrete actions
From Colibrí they need to base their organization on dissemination through talks, brochures, Facebook."We plan to perform an event in the San Martín Square where we are going to attend with health professionals in which we will make glucose measurements. Being a very silent disease, many times it is coexted with the symptoms and it is not known that you have it.That is so important to detect as early as possible.
Another important action is to be included in the collective of subsidiaries that the Argentine Federation of Diabetes (FAD) and "through the contact we established by one of the members of the group with the FAD we want to get us as they incorporate us asOne more subsidiary in the country, since that will allow us to download brochures to spread and the programs they develop. "
Colibrí wants to base its management in three streams on prevention, on detection.From the association they say that "there are several levels of the disease, most of grades two are detected from 40 years by factors such as obesity or stress, lack of exercise, unhealthy habits. That is why we talk about thePossibility of preventing from the knowledge that is today of the causes. "
professionals and advice
Colibrí -which is a non -profit association- longs to incorporate its most professional health and the scope of justice into its ranks."The idea is that they give us what should be known and how to accompany, in the association there are diabetic patients, family, friends and professionals" tell their members.
"We also want to carry out legal advice," they continue, "to begin, from March, on our Facebook page we will overtthose that - although it is willing to cover a certain practice or medically - the mutual does not do so and that needs advice.
On the page we will turn the requirements that mutuals are going to ask for, what they can say yes, that they can deny and fundamentally the rights of affiliates. "
survey in the rooms
Although they are a young group, they have performed very important actions.From concerns presented by patients who approached the group and their own members, "we have made a survey in the rooms of the neighborhoods of the whole city about how many have the lancets for the measurement of diabetic patients. We find that ofThe twelve rooms, half have them and there are not six.Without that, the measurement can be done either.
We want to donate these elements so that they are all complete. "They are based on this need:" One of the conditions to receive the free medication of existing programs is to present the results of the last twenty days of the measurements and the people whoAttend the CAPS, you cannot always complete that requirement or take more than a month to do so due to the lack of these inputs.That means running out of medication, so we want to correct this issue.If he is an insulin -dependent patient, he can die, because the measurement leads to medication. "
Colibrí is also focused on "doing preventive tasks, legal advice and providing help. That is why we wantLow information and would incorporate us as a subsidiary.
On the Facebook page we turn a lot of information about the disease, about adolescents, guys, because each age has its complexity.We also provide the information service that tends to facilitate the patient the procedures that he has to do.There are two contact phone numbers on the Face, we would like them to like and share so it is known that you can count on this help. "Without hesitation, they affirm at the end of the interview that they are" a group of eight orTen people who are being formed with great enthusiasm. "