Andalusian Federation of Diabetics asks for a new comprehensive diabetes plan

The Andalusian Federation of Diabetics (FAD), belonging to the Federation of Spanish Diabetics (FEDE), claims the entry into force of a new Comprehensive Diabetes Plan, developed by the Ministry of Equality, Health and Social Policies, and of which, he regrets"The community lacks since the previous one ended in 2013".

The president of the Andalusian Federation of Diabetics, Francisco Pérez Barroso, criticizes, in statements to Europa Press, "the lack of support" to diabetes in Andalusia, after the II Comprehensive Diabetes Plan ended at the end of 2013, one endwhich considers "a barbarity."In addition, he points out that the diabetes education protocols "are failing" and that in many hospital centers and health centers "they are not even following", since he criticizes that "the prevention protocols are not working either."

Regarding clinical assistance, he points out that "there are serious problems, such as those referred to diabetic foot-" with 1,500 amputated feet every year to diabetics in Andalusia "-, dispensing strips for blood glycemia meters in blood,of needles for insulin pens, and lancet for blood extraction punctures.

Thus, Pérez Barroso, also president of the Campo de Gibraltar Diabetics Association, reports that on October 15 they will hold a meeting with counseling technicians, and that later, on the 28th, there will be a meeting between the table of the table ofwork created ad hoc by the Federation and the Director of the Comprehensive Plan "to resume it at the beginning of 2015 and monitor."

"We want political leaders to feel at the table and fulfill their commitments," says the president of the FAD, who criticizes that the comprehensive plan "the Ministry is launched, that some goals are marked, and then it does not meet it,And this is suffered by the sick ", which is estimated are about 800,000 people in all Andalusia.

Finally, Pérez Barroso highlights the care differences that "suffer today in our country, and in the Andalusian community, depending only on the place where the patient resides; fact that is clearly unconstitutional," he emphasizes.

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