The extreme poverty in which many Huasteca families live has prevented patients with chronic degenerative pathologies from improving their health, such is the case of diabetic patients who do not have refrigerator to save insulin that should be injected daily or appropriate food.
According to the Chief of Internal Medicine of the General Hospital, Gabriela López Leija, the public health problem that most concerns the health sector, is diabetes, which occupies the first place of morbidity in Huasteca, a reflection not of foulof medical care or treatment but of the abandonment in which a large part of these patients are found.
"Our hospital provides attention to peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis, insulin, doctor and everything necessary, but unfortunately the chronic renal pathology is increasing and, this is due to extreme poverty in which many families live, because we have found patients who although although althoughWe give them the precise indications of the treatment, they do not carry them correctly because they do not know how to read, they do not have refrigerator to save the insulin and are lost, ”he said.
He said that applying insulin without having eaten, can cause hypoglycemia or diabetic coma and, unfortunately there are many who arrive at the hospital in these conditions.
In other cases, he said that the patient does not apply insulin because he considers that this could cause blindness, when reality is very different, since the liver does not secrete insulin, it generates complications such as diabetic retinopathy.
"Truly the situation that is being lived with diabetes is very serious, the best formula is prevention, healthy food and exercise," he said.