The amputations in lower extremities affect 3.4 patients per 1,000 who develops diabetic foot.
It is estimated that 9,000 diabetic patients will develop, in the course of their life, an ulcer in a lower limb.That ulcer will end in amputation in more than 14% of cases.
Hence the importance of diabetics has easy access to podiatrists.Until three years ago, this group had a podiatrist from the concert that SAS maintained with the Blanca Paloma Hospital that ended in early 2013 although there was an extension.
At that time, Huelva Diabetes understood that a single podiatrist was clearly insufficient so that many patients opted for private consultations.
Currently, the situation goes through a concert that the Federation that the Andalusian Diabetics Associations maintains with a Seville consultation, which is supported by public funds.
Following the celebration of Diabetes Day, last month, the Professional College of Podiatrists of Andalusia announced that it shows that amputations are necessary at 3.4 out of 1,000 patients who have developed the diabetic foot.
The president of the College of Podiatrists of Andalusia, Jorge Barnés, said that the inclusion of this professional "in the public health system of the diabetes of diabetes would avoid in most cases the most extreme complication of this diseaseas is amputation. "
"It is crucial to properly manage diabetic ulcers and podological infections of this type of patients and podiatrists we have to be there because we are the specialists in the foot, the body farthest from the heart where there is less blood irrigation," Barnés clarifies.
A recent study carried out by the Spanish Diabetic Foot Group has shown that the standing amputation rate in Spain almost doubles that observed in other neighboring countries.And this trend is increasing, which reveals the need to adopt urgent measures, according to the Andalusian school.