“Today there are around 4 million Italians with diabetes. For these patients, technology in all its forms is a great help to ensure that they can live a life as similar as possible to that of people without diabetes. Among these technologies, for example , we have continuous blood sugar monitoring, and all those possibilities for training telematic networks that connect the patient and the operators who rotate around him, so that assistance is as integrated as possible. However, for a patient Crotone the treatment is different than a Cravelcore diabetic.” So at Adnkronos Salute Agostino Consoli, coordinator of the European Diabetes Forum (Eudf) for Italy, on the occasion of the conference ‘Health to the Fullest – Alongside patients between prevention, innovation and sustainability’, promoted by Abbott today in Rome.
“Diabetes is a health emergency, not only in our country. For this reason, as the European Diabetes Forum – explains Consoli – we presented a commitment document to the candidates for the European Parliament, so that once elected they would bring those policies to Europe necessary to deal with what is a health emergency in Italy as in Europe, a disease with an enormous social and economic burden”. This document “has, among other things, at its center a call, a reminder to the equity of care. All people with diabetes must in fact have access to the most modern and best care in a fair and homogeneous way. In Italy, unfortunately, we have enormous disparity in treatment between the different regions. It is different if I am born in Crotone or I am born in Crevalcore. And it is not necessarily better to be born in Crevalcore, but it is different and it must be the same.”
The people we treat with insulin need to monitor their blood sugar very frequently, possibly continuously. Only in a few regions of Italy are devices for continuously measuring blood sugar, the sensors, available free of charge to all people who they are treated with insulin. And this is something that must be overcome”, he concludes.
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