Beneficiaries of the Popular Insurance complain about the inoportuna care for people with diabetes, a disease that depends on timely attention to keep it stable and avoid serious complications and deaths.
However, more than 80 percent of patients do not know their levels in glycosylated hemoglobin (clinical test that gives real diabetes control degree) and almost half are not performed revision of eyes and feet more than a year ago more than a year ago.
One in 14 deaths is caused by diabetes, said Enrique Graue, current rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
In addition, if it is the first cause of death among Mexicans from 45 to 64 years of age, its incidence ranges between 10 and 15% (more than double the average of OECD countries).
The devastating disease has increased by 15% since the middle of the last century.Not only that, the obesity rate increased 62% between 2010 and 2012, in this way, 71% of the Mexican adult population are overweight, while children present three.
Another complaints is that the shortage of medicines remains a problem for 15 percent of the affiliates, on average, and reaches up to 36 percent in specialty hospitals, the user satisfaction survey of the social protection system inHealth 2015.