The initiatives of the present administration of launching a mobile application to prevent children's diabetes, the dissemination of the Municipal Guide of Nutrition in Schools of the City and the offer of opportunities for the most vulnerable families such as the Medical Program at home, among others, among others,He caught the attention of the managers of the pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordis who invited the city to join the world project "Cities changing diabetes."
Lucía Salcedo, manager of Public Affairs and Relations with patients of the firm met in recent days with Mayor María Fritz Sierra to expose the scope of this world initiative that has as one of its mapping objectives, quantify and understand the challenge of diabetesUrban.
The firm, with more than 90 years of innovation in the care of the condition, launched this project since 2014, being Mexico City to join.Then cities like Copenhagen, Denmark;Houston, United States;Shanghai and Tianjin, China;Vancouver, Canada;Rome, Italy;Johannesburg, South Africa, Leicester, England, among others.
Fritz Sierra stressed that since the beginning of the administration of the mayor with a Mauricio Vila licensed.
As a first point to join this initiative, the municipal president proposed the integration of an advisory council that will be formed by governmental instances, academics, health institutions, civil society organizations, opinion leaders and representatives of Novo Nordisk.
During the meeting it was reported that one of the objectives of this collaboration is to develop and implement a quantitative study that allows to know in detail how many people live with diabetes in the Yucatecan capital, how many have been diagnosed, how many of these have treatment and how many haveA life without complications.
Accompanied by the director of the Municipal DIF, Loreto Villanueva Trujillo, who presented the actions carried out at the Center for Nutritional Care and Diabetes (Cemanud);Fritz Sierra stressed that in the field of health, the City Council of Mérida supports citizens with actions such as the delivery of orthopedic devices, lenses, mobile mastograph services and the medical program at home for the prevention and care of overweight, childhood obesity, diabetes andhypertension.
