He terminates the contract in force and returns the supply to the previous provider, who lost the award a year ago "when the economic offer prevailed in the public tender."
The Diabetics of Cantabria won the battle to the so -called 'pic' needles, after the wave of complaints about their "poor quality" and the "painful" that result to inject insulin - a operation that the patients with type 1 diabetes perform 4 or5 times a day throughout his life.
The Cantabrian Health Service (SCS) has initiated the process of revocation of the contract with the supply company.
As of next February, the current ones will be removed and the material provided to patients will be re -managed until just one year ago the supplier company was relegated in a public tender in which "the cheapest offer was imposed".Shortly after this decision was confirmed, the telephone of the president of the Cantabrian Association of Diabetics (ACD), Aureliano Ruiz, threw smoke.All communities that share the fight against "low cost" needles, which accumulate a reef of patient protests (pain, bruises, difficulties in controlling the dose of injected insulin ...), celebrated the announcement.
It was the Deputy Director of Health Assistance of the SCS, Ana Tejerina, the person in charge of communicating it: "We have initiated the procedure for the dissolution of the contractual link with the current winner, which we trust to have ended by the end of January, so that in February assumesThis service was in second position in the contest, "he said.This implies that the company that lost the struggle despite having more score in the technical part - that of "the needles of a lifetime, which we had never had complaint", apostille from the association - recovers the benefit, even if it is fromTemporary form.Specifically, "until the call of the following public tender, scheduled for a year," Tejerina added.
In February, the company that was second in the public tender will assume the supply, "says Ana Tejerina
This returns us to the situation that Cantabria has always had, which has been the envy of Spain, "explains Aureliano Ruiz
The news took "surprise" the Ruiz himself, who has headed the 'fight' against the health authorities of the region to knock up this award, while, as a delegate of the Spanish Federation of Diabetics, he fights because this "success" achievedIt is repeated in the rest of the communities that face identical consequences."I am not I believe it, as if we had touched the fat of the lottery," he said.After expressing his "congratulation" to the Ministry of Health, he pointed out that "this returns Cantabria to the situation we had before. We do not have to forget that we have always been the envy of Spain in the treatment of diabetes, an example to follow".From the beginning the association notified the SCS of the "error" that meant an award based on economic criteria, it was said that the change of supplier "entailed a loss of quality in the necessary material for the self -care of the diabetic patient" and what "Time was going to prove us right. "But those first protests fell into broken bag."I warned the Ministry of Health of what was happening in other autonomous communities and that I was going to bring problems," Ruiz insisted.
From the Cantabrian Health Service they wanted-.And to those figures the administration clung to deny, at first, the dissolution of the contract.Yesterday, Tejerina said that "the reality is that,Until the month of December, only 29 patients had requested a change of needles, of the more than 10,000 that are injected daily. "Compensation "For the outgoing company, it responds to the" not proposition of the law approved in the Parliament of Cantabria "last month. Citizens were the party that heard the claims of the association and who brought the initiative to the Chamber to urge HealCheck the agreement.
reuse
Now, the president of the Cantabrian diabetics urges to change the hiring model so that in the future the technical criteria have more weight than the economic ones, since otherwise "the commercial houses of poor quality needles will always win."And "the worst," he insists, "is that the difference between good needles and those that are not is just 3,000 euros per year in Cantabria, so it is not a matter of money."Tejerina agreed that it is an "anecdotal" amount.
Ruiz, who has developed a situation study by communities, stressed that, "apart from the poor needle quality, those necessary for proper control of the pathology" are not dispensed, which causes that, although by national health regulations andInternational, the practice of reuse is strictly prohibited, "the patient is forced to have to reuse them, despite the danger that this entails for their health."In addition, he is concerned that "in most of the committees in which the award of supplies is decided, patients are not present", so he claims to place the patient on the central axis, otherwise "this bad will not be solvedpraxis ".
Situation in Spain
Andalusia.The Board of Forces an agreement with the distributor after the problems in Seville and Malaga.
Castilla-La Mancha.Albacete, who chose the cheap offer, was forced to change the supplier.
Castilla y León.Ávila and Segovia, with poor quality needles, are buying from another commercial house.
Catalonia.Years ago I had needles of poor quality, until a new contest was convened.
Madrid.After a very low first tender, another file was taken out and quality needles are given.
C. Valenciana.After complaints for years of patients, the government did not extend the contest.
Estremadura.He has been fighting for quality needles for years.Waiting to publish contest.
Galicia.It has been with poor quality needles for years without the administration providing any change.
Canary Islands.There are diversity of needles that are supplied according to the area in question.
Navarre.A contract was awarded to a firm ‘low cost’ and at 3 months it returned to previous needles.
The Basque Country.Vitoria prevailed the economic offer and at 4 months he had to call another contest.
Asturias.Fight for years to get quality needles, since it does not have them now.
