After the decompensation that a 13 -year -old girl had with type 1 diabetes in a private school in the city, various actors who work to raise awareness about diabetes, asked that teaching teams be trained on the subject.The student warned that she felt bad to her teacher, but they did not let her go to the bathroom and ended up hospitalized.
Rossana del Frari, president of the Foundation Together Al Par said: "What happened to this girl cannot happen again. It is necessary that teachers know about diabetes and also that schools are equipped to respond to these situations."
Del Frari explained that from the Foundation a project was presented at the Ministry of Education with a strategy to contain children who have type 1 diabetes in the establishments, but there were no answers.
"We had the meeting with the Minister of Education, Analía Berruezo, on September 29. We took a project designed for the containment that boys with diabetes need during school hours, because we believe they are unprotected. One of the proposals is thatIt is considered to incorporate a nurse in each establishment to help the boys with the controls in this type of episodes, the administration of insulin or give support in itself, "said the Frari.
He added that the figure of the nurse in schools would also serve to make an inclusive approach with other pathologies that boys can have."The minister replied that implementing that project would be very expensive, that it was impossible to put nurses in educational establishments," he said.
The National Diabetes Law 23,753, whose amendment is 26,914, says in article 5 that the application authority must carry out national campaigns for the detection and awareness of the disease.It also indicates that this must articulate actions with local jurisdictions and educational institutions so that students and teachers access adequate knowledge about the problem.
From the group of parents, adolescents and children of Salta (Pandis), Maritza Ortega, said: "In depth and conscientious there is no school, school or teachers in general who are trained to assist a child or a teenager with diabetes."
On the experience he has with the talks given by the Pandis group with professionals, he said: "There are teachers and managers who commit and attend, and there are other institutions in which no one goes to the talks. It is a topic that must beaddress throughout the year. "
"There is ignorance"
The nutrition and diabetes specialist of the Maternal Child, María Gabriela Pacheco, told El Tribuno: "Hypoglycemia is the event that accompanies insulin treatment in diabetes 1. There is ignorance in the educational area about diabetes. Teachers have toknow if there is a student who applies insulin. "
