The Legislative Power asks the Secretariats of Health and Education to carry out diabetes detection and prevention campaigns from the primary schools, through glucose exams to the students.
Deputy Luisa Ivone Gallegos Martínez warned that diabetes cases increase, especially in children and young people, and it is, unfortunately, the second cause of mortality, only after cardiovascular diseases, and is the first cause of acquired blindness and amputations.
"56% of patients do not know that they suffer from it and six out of ten people with diabetes had never measured blood sugar until they got to consult."
"That is why prevention and early detection become indispensable elements to reduce the figures and consequences related to diabetes," he said.
Adrián Vella, a specialist of the “May” Clinic in Rochester, explains that taking measures to prevent prediabets from progressing and becoming diabetes is of the utmost importance to health, highlighting the need to perform the necessary exams in atimely stage.
"As the World Health Organization points out, coordinated actions of international and national policy are necessary to reduce exposure to known risk factors for diabetes and improve access to care and quality," he said, to thePropose the application of glucose exams in primary students.