I also wrote to the Ombudsman.The study has done so in the Canary Islands and I wrote to the person who did it.He had the deference to answer me.This was your answer:
Dear Mrs. Lardín,
In the first place I would like to thank you for your email and that you have contacted us to expose your situation and assessment in relation to the recent report on continuous glucose monitoring systems in real time for patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes.
We are aware that the next explanation will serve as little comfort in your situation, but I beg you to try to understand it, and with it the nature of our work.
Indeed, a technology can save lives from people suffering from a certain disease, but costing an amount of money with which even more lives of people with another disease could be saved.The reality is that money must be distributed in the way in which possible lives with the money there are save.Another different topic is whether or not we agree with this approach and distribution of the health budget.
The report commented specifically published on people with unnoticed hypoglycemia.They are only two studies, which are not entirely comparable (because the device used in one of them is more modern and incorporates an automatic suspension system of insulin administration, and the other does not) and have several methodological problems.
It is crucial that this difference takes into account: we do not affirm that the device does not work in that group of people, but that from those few published data and their methodological problems, and attending to the scientific rules that we have to stick,We cannot say that it does work.It is that there is little scientific evidence in favor, not that there is much evidence against.
Precisely for that reason, and for experiences with the device like yours, and because many experts believe that it is useful in people with unnoticed hypoglycemia, we are convinced that they will soon leave new studies that strengthen scientific evidence.Therefore, it is not a closed topic at all.
And at the exclusively personal level, we feel the need to tell you that we are not emotionally oblivious to the individual reality of people like you or others with very serious health problems, and with tremendously difficult situations to move forward.But we broadcast some judgments based on a scientific methodology and published studies, we have to stick to that.
Thank you very much again for your email and we hope that this explanation can help you understand our activity and the reason why the conclusions of the report in question are issued.
Receive a cordial greeting,
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