Attention to schoolchildren with diabetes in classrooms

When a child is diagnosed with diabetes his world changes due to the impact he can cause on his development and also for his environment, since there is fear of feeling rejected by others before this new reality that is now part of his day to day to day.

When they are also young children who develop their daily activity in schools, it is necessarya legal regulation that requires educational centers to take responsibility for the attention to this group.

So far, everything depends on the will of teachers and schools that sometimes are reluctant to get involved in this and other aspects of their attention ..

In Spain, 30,000 children under 15 have diabetes, which, on many occasions, children have to face situations that must be treated daily by people who are in charge.It is time to become aware of the need to establish legal regulations that require educational centers to take responsibility for the attention to these students.

The Valencian Community is the only region that has a regulation that establishes the guarantee of the law of minors, through the obligation to establish a clear procedure of collaboration between the health administration and the educational administration, to facilitate the most suitable care response to the processschool of students suffering from chronic diseases and specifying specific health care.

As regards the rest, progress is being given since in most of them there are protocols for the child's performance in school.

For just giving an example, Balearic Islands have developed such a document, which allows childrenwhere there is also a census of affected minors.

Fede claims an equal regulation in all communities so that schools have the healthcare they need.

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