The families of people affected by type 1 diabetes, 10 % of the total diabetics, criticize that the Department of Health of the Generalitat does not return the calls or made the glucose meters available to patients, asHe committed.
Sources of the Association of Diabetics of Catalonia have explained to Efe that the Department of Health does not respond, "for months", to the calls of the relatives of patients and that in the last Advisory Council of Diabetes only a draft of the draft of theReport of the Canary Islands Community on this subject, "without giving more explanations."
Since the end of May 2017, when Health Managers committed themselves to imminent actions on this issue, calls and families "are very nervous" are not answered.
The Parliament approved in May last year, unanimously, a resolution that urged the Government to include in the portfolio of services of the Catalan Health Service the glucose measurement devices for the control of type 1 diabetes.
The Association of Diabetics of Catalonia (ADC), together with mothers and fathers of diabetic children and adolescents, a battle for almost two years for Catalonia to adopt this type of meters, since they improve the control of the disease, facilitate the life of the life of theaffected and avoid complications of other long -term diseases.
After the approval of the Parliamentary Resolution, a Cost-Effectivity Study was carried out by the Health and Evaluation Agency of Catalonia (Aquas), with a positive evaluation result, the Diabetics Association has recalled.
Other communities, such as Extremadura, Galicia, Valencia and Murcia have advanced much more than Catalonia in the introduction of the meters, according to the association.
"We fight for patients with type 1 diabetes, which are only 10 %, have access to these systems, backed worldwide," they have argued since ADC.
These meters avoid continuous punctures to check the glucose levels that must be performed with the current system, which makes it difficult to lead a normalized life, especially children.
These new systems are constantly measuring and offers an average measurement of the last 5 minutes each time it provides data, and indicate whether blood glucose is going up or down.
In addition, the combined use of the continuous glycemia meter and insulin pump allows to automatically stop insulin infusion in case the glycemia meter detects hypoglycemia.
This report from the Canary Islands community points out that the implementation of the meters would involve economic savings "from the first year" of implantation, compared to the expenditure of the control strips currently used.
The Diabetics Association of Catalonia recalls that countries such as France and Great Britain have already adopted continuous glucose meters in their public health systems, and even in the United States, with health systems linked to health services paying entities, one ofThe most important, Union Healthcare, has updated its coverage criteria in this regard a few days ago.
Those affected and their relatives expect that on the 26th of this month, at the planned meeting of the Diabetes Advisory Council of Catalonia, the Catalan Administration of a definitive response to the implementation of the meters for the patients of type 1 diabetes.
