NGOs gather with Procordia so that Córdoba adheres to the National Diabetes Law (Argentina)

Civil Organizations such as Nadia (New Association of Diabetes), the Scouts United for Diabetes, parents united by Diabetes, the Argentine Society of Diabetes and members of the Provincial Program Córdoba Diabetes (Procordia) today will hold a meeting meeting at the Misericordia hospital.It will have to advance the adhesion of the province of Córdoba to the National Diabetes Law.

The meeting will be carried out at 11 and in it will also participate the Riocuartense legislator Luis Sánchez (Unión by Córdoba), who drives a regulation in that sense in the Unicameral, and has been working on the subject since he assumed the commitment on November 14Past, World Diabetes Day.

As reported in the morning, Nydia Ferhat, president of Nadia, civil organization Riocuartense promoter of the national law approved in Congress in November 2013, since the regulation of that rule in July 2014 so far, only three Argentine provinces adhered toThe same: San Luis, Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz.This is why the objective is now set in Córdoba.

“What we will have tomorrow (for today) will be a meeting with Procordia authorities to reach agreements regarding what will be the implementation of the National Diabetes Law in Córdoba.In that meeting, the presence of legislator Luis Sánchez who has been working and has advanced in an adhesion project for Córdoba that includes points exceeding national regulations is also planned, ”Ferhat said.

10 people from Nadia are expected to travel from Río Cuarto to the city of Córdoba, with premises such as agreeing a project that adds benefits to patients with a criterion that is not "economist", which includes a "guarantor state" and a "patientresponsible".

The proposal that is sought is a law that is “inclusive and integrative” of the province of Córdoba, and that subsane the current inconveniences that occur with social, mutual and prepaid works, which give different interpretations to national regulations, beforethe lack of a provincial adhesion.This is why several legal actions have been raised to access the provision of necessary supplies for those who suffer from the disease.

"We believe that adherence to national law or the sanction in the province of an overcoming law would correct inconveniences," Ferhat said.Among them, having to move to the city of Córdoba from the inside (touring hundreds of kilometers) to access those inputs.But at the same time, I would give more tools to be able to litigate in case of not obtaining coverage.
According to Ferhat, there are no statistics at the provincial level, so it is estimated that 10 percent of the Cordoba population suffers from type II diabetes, based on a survey carried out by organizations in the departments of southern Córdoba.

This epidemiological monitoring made by Nadia pointed out that in that provincial zone 10.7% of the population suffered from that disease.In Berrotar, for example, it is 12.2%, Ferhat said.

project in the unicameral

At the same time that civil organizations will advance today in agreements, within the provincial legislature, legislator Sánchez held meetings yesterday with provisional president Oscar González, and also with Norberto Podversich, president of the Health Commission.

In both meetings, Sánchez raised some points that would be included in the preliminary draft that he will present for a parliamentary status.

One of them is to incorporate the NGOs that have been working in the province with the subject, so that they work as the comptroller agencies of the application of the provincial law.

In light of what happened in Córdoba with the law of assisted fertilization, the eyes of these social organizations areput in the advance that an adhesion project can have in the unicameral.“I wish we can have a Cordoba law of diabetes at the same time that we get the Congress to sanction the national: 85 days.We must bear in mind that we played from premises here, ”said Farhat.

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