The PSOE has asked the Government to review the diabetes strategy of the National Health System (SNS) and that certain inequalities suffer patients of this disease, both adults at work, as children in schools.
Through a non -law proposition, registered in Congress, the socialists have stood out of the need to improve the situation of the more than five million citizens suffering from diabetes, also alerting that there are another three million affected thatThey have not yet been diagnosed.
"The WHO has insisted that you have to make a special effort to diagnose diabetes, so that it does not reach it when there are already affected organs, such as the heart or brain," explained the PSOE health spokesman in the chamberBaja, Jesús María Fernández.
They ask for protocols in all CCAA
The registered initiative also includes points about the inequalities that the diabetic patient has.Among them their impossibility to access certain public employment places, such as those of Local or National Police, among other jobs.
In addition, they ask for "greater integration of the diabetic child in school.""And that there are protocols in all autonomous communities, and not only in some, to improve the attention and school life of the diabetic child," Fernández explained.
The socialist deputy participated on Tuesday in a meeting, together with the general secretary of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Miguel Ángel Heredia, and a representation of Fede, headed by its president Andoni Lorenzo.The association has transferred the problems that diabetes patients are in Spain and has shown its concern about the way of addressing the disease.