Fourteen women have died this year in labor due to complications derived from diabetes and in some cases of cancer;About half were recorded at the Regional Hospital of Ciudad Valles.
After the report released by the Secretary of Health in the State, Mónica Liliana Rangel Martínez, on the black figure of deaths when giving birth, the deputy director of the local hospital, Doctor Sergio Torres Herrera, cataloged the problem of diabetesas an authentic health emergency.
It worries, he said that many of the pregnant women are young but have already developed diabetes, especially among the indigenous population.
Dr. Rangel Martínez indicated that in 60% of maternal deaths the factor was indirect, that is, not properly due to the delivery process but by collapse of their organs deteriorated by diabetes.
Until a few years ago he expressed, they were mainly due to bleeding, neonatal sepsis and blood pressure.
They are now associated with complications for other conditions such as diabetes mainly, although also cancer.
He explained that the health sector is implementing strategies so that if a woman wishes to get pregnant and has some chronic disease, she receives medical advice and specialized treatment, with the aim of avoiding risks that may cause her death.
The head of the health services indicated that in 2014 13 maternal deaths were raised and although at the end of 2015 the figure increased in a person, San Luis Potosí remains below the national average.
He acknowledged that "it is not encouraging to say that we are below the national average, here what we have to do intensely in the sector is that no death occurs," he said
He added that there is a reproductive cost, so maternal deaths are presented and are inevitable, however, measures to work on those who are avoidable in the case of patients who have clinical history who can complicate their pregnancy have to be reinforced.
Dr. Torres Herrera, said that diabetes and their complications are occupying the first place of consultation at the Valles Hospital, and is increasing.