"Diabetes charges lives #Take care" is a proposal that the legislator Martha Palafox Gutiérrez seeks to encourage among the population of the country as part of her work for the prevention and health promotion she performs in the Senate of the Republic.
Official data show that the pandemic becomes more and more lives in Mexico, and in a short time it will be one of the causes that for the cost of its attention, collapse the national health system.
Each Mexican takes more than 163 liters of soda per year.One in three children suffers from overweight and obesity.66 Mexicans die daily for the consumption of sugary drinks and according to figures from the World Health Organization for every three children in the country one will be diabetic.
In this sense, the legislator Martha Palafox said that together with Senator Francisco Salvador López Brito and Senator Sonia Acosta Rocha, they will present an initiative with a decree project to reform article 158 section I and the fraction IV bis to 159 to 159of the General Health Law, for the timely detection of the three types of diabetes mellitus.
Youth diabetes, adulthood diabetes and gestational diabetes.
Which produce severe complications and effects on the various organs of those who present it, as well as damage to the heritage of families in Mexico and the National Health System.
“Diabetes mellitus is the second cause of death in the country and has been rising since 1998, the first thing is to recognize the problem of the condition and emphasize the necessary actions for good control of it, preventing is the key, thenThey must know how to distinguish the types of diabetes in each diagnosis;The population must be aware, ”said the legislator.