Those over 18 with type 1 diabetes will have access to this benefit that are punctured at least eight times a day and have less than 7.5% hemoglobin, and all minors from the age of 4
The Public Health of Cantabria will finance continuous glucose meters that replace the punctures on the fingers with a sensor in the arm that allows you to see on the device screen the levels at any time of the day and night.
The Flash system, especially claimed for children by the Cantabria Diabetes Association just two weeks ago, on the occasion of World Disease Day, and so far paid the patients themselves in their pocket (120 euros per month), it will be includedIn the portfolio of the Cantabrian Health Service (SCS) "in the first half of 2018", as the Deputy Director of Health Assistance, Ana Tejerina, for "those groups of patients where there is scientific evidence that is very useful" progresses.
Specifically, "all minors will have access to this new benefit from 4 to 18 who need to prick more than six times a day, which are the vast majority (all type 1 diabetes)."In this group, it is estimated that the beneficiaries will be 129 (104 under 16, plus another 25 and 18 years old).But, unlike other autonomous communities, which have recently announced the financing of these meters only for children and adolescents, Cantabria will be the first to extend this benefit to adults "but in very specific circumstances."
From the SCS they clarify that it will be limited “to those patients with type 1 diabetes, who need a lot of control.That is, they use insulin, which have a glycosylated hemoglobin rate below 7.5% and punctuate more than eight times a day for adequate metabolic control ».
Also, Tejerina points out that «it will be indicated for women with type 1 diabetes before pregnancy, since because they are patients who are more risk of complications, they require more than six punctures a day, so we are interested in being very well controlled before».
"Now the Cantabros with Diabetes are going to be the best attended in Spain," says the president of the collective
In any case, the SCS deputy director insists that "they will be the endocrine, under consensual clinical criteria, who will determine which patients this control system suits them."A recommendation, under medical prescription, which will be carried out progressively, "as they go to consultation for their periodic reviews," he clarifies, to ensure that the distribution is made in an orderly and gradual manner."We have been working on management for months and we are already aware of the last meeting to finish organizing the circuit so that patients access these meters," he explains.
The idea is that they are provided similarly to strips and needles, through health centers.The first time the full kit will be collected, composed of the arm sensor and the monitor, and then, every 14 days, the patch will be changed."This is the most operational," says Tejerina, which guarantees that "the patient will not have to advance the money in any case.This device, which is completely painless, is an incredible improvement in the quality of life of patients, while contributing to self -care.Do not take it off to exercise or bathe, and you can even read (passing the device through the arm sensor) without taking off their clothes or, even, in the case of children, without waking them up at night ».
"The best attended"
The announcement that these glucose meterDiabetes, which applauds the initiative.«We are very happy.Now we can say that the Cantabrians with Diabetes are going to be the best attended in Spain, ”says the president of the collective and vice president of the National Federation, Aureliano Ruiz, user for years of the Flash system.
