Collection 70,000 signatures to improve the lives of people with diabetes in Castilla y León

The Association of Diabetics of Burgos (ASDIBUR), together with the associations of Valladolid, Ávila and Ciudad Rodrigo, will register on Wednesday in the Ministry of Health of Castilla y León, 70,000 firms collected in several provinces of the community, so that from theAutonomic administration begin to study the financing and prescription of continuous glucose measurement systems and continuous monitoring flash systems, for patients with diabetes throughout the territory of Castilla y León, something that has already been done in other autonomous communities forSome time.

The prescription and financing of these systems for people with diabetes is a great improvement in the quality of life and control of their disease.An example of this is the decrease of more than half of the punctures in the fingers, more than 2,500 a year would be reduced.

It would also allow each patient to know at all times, what glycemic value has, to act quickly and to avoid serious damage to their health and even, in some cases, avoid hospital income.In addition, this technology helps provide more data to the doctor or specialist, which will allow you to prescribe more effective treatments and bring better control of each case.

Also in the economic part it is a considerable medium or long -term savings because the number of hospital admissions due to ups or decreases of glucose and by treatments of chronic complications associated with diabetes decreases, as follows from some reports issued in different countries, in which these systems are already financed.

In the short term, it also constitutes a decrease in spending, which is already financed, such as the reactive strips used in the daily controls (from 6 to 10 normally) that people with type 1 diabetes must be made habitual.

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