The Spanish Diabetes Federation (FEDE) has denounced the lack of specialized professionals in diabetes to serve patients with the pathology, a group that represents 14% of the Spanish population and more than 6,000 million euros in health spending, figures that figures thatThey could be reduced with diabetological training, both for health professionals, and for patients and family members.
In a meeting, which has had the support of Abbott, Iratxe Vilariño, president of the Federation of Diabetics Associations of Euskadi (FADE), explained how they work from this federation for the group of people with diabetes, pathology that, onlyIn this autonomous community, it affects 214,349 people, 9.7% of its population.Of all these patients, more than 71,000 are not yet diagnosed, therefore, they cannot act to control their pathology.
The lack of health professionals does not only affect primary care, but many other professionals in other areas of health are needed, as diabetes expert psychologists, who offer tools for emotional management of both patients and family members;as well as pediatric nurses specialized in pathology, who meet the needs of younger patients.
Given this reality, Vilariño has asked the Public Administration to drive training measures for patients, covering issues that urgently require education and ranging from the efficient use of new devices, to the prevention of complications derived from diabetes.
According to Vilariño, "it must be a right of patients to have at least an expert diabetes healthcare, with a well -structured program, and serve as a reference to help manage the pathology, from thedebut and during the development of this ".
