Murcia will subsidize patients with type I diabetes between 4 and 18 years of age a new glucose monitoring device in real time and avoid punctures to get daily controls.
This was indicated by the Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas, in his meeting with representatives of the Regional Murcian Federation of Diabetics Associations and the associations of diabetic patients of the Adirmu region (Murcian Association for Diabetes Care), Adilor (Associationof diabetics of Lorca) and the associations of Águilas and Torre Pacheco Adia and Soditor.
This system works through a sensor patch of the size of a two -euro currency that is placed on the arm and avoids repeated hair punctures prior to the administration of insulin, so we believe we will help considerably to improve qualityOf people with diabetes, Villegas explained.It is estimated that in the Region of Murcia there are 550 children and young people with this pathology that will benefit from this measure.
It is estimated that in the Region of Murcia there are 550 children and young people with this pathology that will benefit from this measure.Villegas has pointed out that changes in population lifestyles have produced an increase in the disease, and has insisted on the need to adopt healthy lifestyle habits that go through abandoning tobacco consumption, food improvement andPromotion of physical activity.These are the most important factors to favor the best control of diabetes and the decrease in their complications.
Recent studies show that with healthy lifestyles, up to 90 percent of the cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented, so the work carried out by the Murcia diabetes associations to whom I recognize the excellent work they have been developing to develop toFavor of people suffering from diabetes, the counselor has stressed.
In this sense, Villegas has highlighted the impulse of alliances with municipalities to develop specific programs aimed at avoiding obesity by performing physical exercise such as the Active Program and actions such as the European Proempower project, “which designs the most advanced tool in Europe destinedTo improve the quality of life of the type 2 diabetic patient, allowing a higher level of independence and control of their disease through a mobile application, ”they point out from the Ministry.
Finally, during the meeting the counselor has also promised to reactivate the Regional Diabetes Advisory Council.
