"The care benefit of people with diabetes in Spain is below the average in Europe, even behind countries such as Latvia, Portugal or Hungary," said Dr. Fernando Gómez Peralta, secretary of the Spanish Diabetes Society (SED), in the presentation of the IV edition of Diabetes Experience Day, which will take place this Saturday, February 18, at the auditorium of the Carlos III University of Leganés.The expert has indicated that our country is in 18 European position in assistance benefit.
"In Spain there is access to healthcare benefit and therapeutic education but it is really very unequal based on the autonomous community or the place where the patient with diabetes lives," Peralta said."It is necessary a determined commitment to the administration that allows to unify the benefits that patients with diabetes should receive," said the Secretary of the Spanish Diabetes Society (SED).
In this sense, the person responsible for thirst has highlighted the importance of “the units that treat patients with diabetes have well -trained educators, in addition to professionals such as podiatrists, nutritionists or psychologists, something that is currently not a reality in Spain andHe promised to it. ”
Thus, the expert has referred to the agreement signed almost 30 years ago internationally (declaration of Saint Vincent) in which the states assumed that a unit in diabetes must include different health professionals that are not now.In the case of Spain, "we can find areas and hospitals that do provide a more complete and others that do not."
Fernando Peralta has also influenced the importance of education and training in diabetes, and has taken the opportunity to present, together with Angel Ramírez, the IV edition of the Experience Day Diabetes, which is celebrated this Saturday, February 18, and in which it isThe participation of about 1,500 attendees planned.In its current edition, this national event will dedicate part of the program to innovation and technology, research, gastronomy and leisure.
This year the workshops created to inform and train diabetes in specific aspects of the disease, related to sport, parents and the relationship with their child's diabetes stand out.In total, a dozen activities focused on improving the relationship of patients with their disease from a very practical point of view and who have aroused the interest of attendees.
They will be addressed, among other aspects, gene therapy and the use of stem cells, since they are the paths marked by the researchers to achieve the cure of diabetes.These two advances make researchers consider that diabetes cure is getting closer.In its most playful aspect in the Diabetes Experience Day a ‘Showcooking’ workshop will be held, by the hand of the prestigious chef Ramón Freixa, together with Dr. Teresa Lajo.In addition, it will feature the first opera centered on diabetes, as well as a humorous and alternative vision of diabetes, with the biological Ricardo Moure.
Likewise, a round table will be held that, under the title ‘Unmasking Dr. Google in Diabetes’, will feature the participation of Óscar López de Briñas, creator of the blog ‘Reflections of a sugary Jedi’;Gabriel Cuatrecasas, Family Doctor of Cap Sarrià and member of the Redgdps;Daria Roca, nurse and educator at the Clinic Hospital in Barcelona;and Virginia Bellido, a graduate and extraordinary prize in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Santiago de Compostela.
