Mothers denounce that they do not have 5 needles for diabetic children (Tenerife)

They claim that they have put at least 70 claims, but that the Ministry of Health puts them "excuses" since the end of 2015 Health says that you must first form.

A group of mothers of children with Tenerife diabetes denounces this newspaper that do not have needles of 4 or 5 to prick their children.They assured that since the end of 2015 they only supply needles of 6, despite the multiple claims they have placed before the Ministry of Health.They estimate that from a group of more 70 mothers and fathers, everyone has put at least one claim.

Esther Light affirms that the endocrine advises to use needles of 6 because "pediatric lipodystrophies" can be generated.Some of the mothers have attached their complaints images with the bruises that cause their children to punctures the needles that facilitate them.

The first responses to their claims made reference to the purchase had to be done by contest (although it was not clarified why it had been delayed).Not a word about the photos of the bruises that were attached or on the report made by the pediatrician who reviews that "it presents bruises in the puncture zone."

Once the new contest was failed and signed (last April), "at the beginning of May" the stores "6 and 8, and at the end of May, the 4 mm" entered the warehouses. "

However, the latter have not yet been distributed because "they will be supplied as a correct knowledge of their use by the patients to whom they are given," Health explained to this newspaper.

The Ministry explains that the 4 mm needle is "totally novel" and that, for this reason, "throughout the month of June there have been 10 mandatory training sessions for professionals throughout the health area" andthat this week "distribution has begun to the centers of the 4 mm needles".

Now, it is these health professionals who have to train children with diabetes in the use of these needles."The size of the needles and the administration technique have a direct relationship with the effectiveness of the treatment," they emphasize from the Tenerife health area.

Therefore, they add, "it would be incomplete attention" to distribute the needles and "not to ensure this knowledge by the user."

Mothers, however, do not understand so many delays and ensure that they have to pay (as they can, many times asking the family because they have no income) the needle boxes of 5. "The 5 mm needles do notThey have been distributed by management for two years, "they say from Health.

However, in Las Palmas they are distributed.Although the parents consulted say they are not of good quality.

"To give them the 6 of the new contest"

The Tenerife Diabetes Association (ADT) wanted to highlight that the Tenerife health area had counted throughout the needle acquisition process with the association."In the evaluation committee there have been professionals from the ADT," said Fran Darias, manager of the Association.

He acknowledged that there had been delays due to the fulfillment of the administrative procedure, but stressed that the 6 mm of the new contest were already in the health centers.In this sense, he recommended that the affected mothers ask for those of the 6 "of the new contest", which are not "of poor quality" like those of the previous one."Those of the previous contest should not be distributed, which were of very poor quality," he said.

He said that the ADT felt "satisfied" because for the first time "a training plan" of professionals and parents had been raised, "something unpublished" to date by the administration.

Darias was convinced that "in a matter of weeks" the new needles will be distributed, which have "oneImportant technical difference "compared to the previous ones.

Mothers like Esther Light, however, complain about the "abandonment" in which diabetic children are and that if they do not even give needles, not to mention insulin bombs.

Darias acknowledges that the bombs are in the public health benefits, but that in the northern area of ​​Tenerife there are few "personal" specialized HUC: only an endocrine pediatrician.In Gran Canaria, he says, the situation in children is even worse.

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