In Castilla y León there are about 200,000 cases diagnosed with diabetes, of them 28,000 are in the province of Salamanca, although, according to experts, it is estimated that they can reach the nearly 50,000 affected taking into account that half of the people whoThey suffer from this disease do not know.

This situation has led to the Socialist Municipal Group has elaborated a motion that it will present in the next plenaryBenefits

In recent years, numerous autonomous communities in Spain have added to their portfolio of services continuous glucose monitoring, “something that has not yet been done in our public system is health care, with the consequent grievance towards diabetes patients both from Salamancaas of the rest of the community, ”they say from the PSOE.

Flash System

Therefore, it is "a proposal aimed at improving the quality of life of patients with diabetes both in Salamanca and in the rest of the region."And it is that diabetes is a pathology that has elevations and decreases in the blood sugar level so it is necessary to resort to control of blood level detection systems.

A performance that is performed with reactive strips that analyze a drop of blood extracted by puncture.Glycemia control is a key parameter to achieve metabolic control and be able to adjust pharmacological treatment.

There are currently market systems that unwind the glycemia, without the need for painful punctures.This technology, called glucose monitoring flash system, allows to obtain a complete profile of the history of the last eight hours plus the trend without a puncture, and therefore serves to make the patient act more informed.