This project seeks to evaluate and treat in two years an average of seven thousand people, including diabetic patients and people at risk of contracting that disease.
The National Diabetes Association and the Regional Directorate of Health of Piura through the “Take care” project seeks in patients an early diagnosis and timely check of people affected with diabetes.
This project seeks to evaluate and treat in two years an average of seven thousand people, including diabetic patients and people at risk of contracting that disease.
“It is a national project, managed with the World Diabetes Foundation, in which the DIRESA will train its staff and form multidisciplinary equipment units for screening, early and timely diagnosis, by meansIn order to avoid complications in the diabetic patient, ”said Jorge Calderón Ticona, endocrinologist at the Archbishop Loayza hospital, and national coordinator of the Take care project.
Calderón said that Piura will become a pilot-referential project to execute said model of preventive work nationwide for diabetes patients.
In this regard, doctors, nurses and nutritionists of the Executing Units 400, 401 and 403 were trained by the medical team from Lima.
