Ingesa clarifies to the Diabetes Association that facilitates insulin bombs if the specialist asks for it

The Ceutí de Diabetes association released a statement on Monday in which it regretted that it had nothing to celebrate on World Disease Day and in which it listed what the collective demands are to improve its assistance in the city.

Asked about these claims, the Territorial Directorate of the National Institute of Health Management (Ingesa) clarified to the diabetics entity that “insulin bombs are facilitated through the reference centers if requesting it by the specialist”, since the collective claimedits incorporation as "in other parts of Spain."

Within Ingesa's health strategies in Ceuta "the incorporation of these bombs gradually is expected, as is being done in Melilla this last year, as a pilot test, only with a dozen approximately patients."This information, said the department directedtopics that they consider of their interest in order not to disseminate messages that can create confusion or uncertainty among our fellow citizens. ”

endocrinology

The territorial management wanted to point out that its institution meets the “regulations in all its requirements, since we have a specialist in endocrinology”.A specialty in which they were attended in the first half of the first 738 consultations and 1,997 reviews, which represents an increase of first 62 consultations and 98 revisions on the same period of the previous year.The average delay is around 30 days - under the national average - and, added the body responsible for healthcare, there is no delay for urgent consultations.

In summary, local public health "guarantees the correct health care in diabetes to the Ceutíes within the legal and human framework that responsives us."

The pediatric endocrine is not in the RPT

Regarding pediatric endocrinology, Ingesa said that it is not included in the relationship of jobs (RPT) of the University Hospital because it does not correspond to it by category, but recalled that “it guarantees pediatric endocrine assistance in its reference centers, as a brandthe law ”.The Ceutí de Diabetes Association claimed in its writing the expansion of the service with a second endocrine and pediatric endocrinology that would avoid transfers to the peninsula.