In recent weeks there has been an attempt to limit the freedom of people with diabetes in Lombardy, they speak of the possibility of cure in the most appropriate and suitable to their needs.
It all started when some of the ASL Lombardia have issued a call lasting 4 years for devices of blood glucose, blood glucose meters. The only criterion for the award winners of this competition will be the cost. That win products that simply cost less, regardless of the quality of the unit, the 'reliability of the measurement of glucose, the painfulness of the operation and ease of use. This policy will be extended to all ASL Lombardy Region through a Government Decision, and then at national level for the 500,000 people with diabetes in Lombardy and the 3 million Italians with diabetes quality of life and care will be severely compromised.
So for 4 years the provision of aids, such as blood glucose test strips and lancing, will be blocked by this notice: patients and diabetologists no longer be able to choose the equipment best or most suitable for your lifestyle, but will They are required to only one device more convenient. Not only: in fact this will block innovation and technological research in the field of better devices. It should also be noted that this decision is in stark contrast to the principles of the Manifesto of the People with Diabetes and recently signed with the law 115/87.
As the news spread, all the associations of Lombardy patients with diabetes have been mobilized in a unified manner, before a general indignation against the decision of the Lombardy Region. All this has sparked even a parliamentary question to the Minister of Health. By comparing it generated seems to have been reached a first result: the parties involved (ASL and associations) have agreed to suspend the call in and review the current criteria for allocation of such notice, including for example the quality. But there is still nothing definitive, and we await developments and to never let our guard down.
Of course, this is a great victory for the associations and the voluntary sector, to which must be complimented for this step forward in solving the problem and confirms that together we can win these battles. However, the shock remains true for this attack, the consequence of a too cold managerial public health. Maybe we should make it clear to our administrators that a purely economic assessment can have serious repercussions on daily life and on disease management: the health of people can not be questioned, life is priceless.
I was very indignant at such ignorance in asking, but especially by the USL Lombarda hold a Notice of Contest of gravity so high, physicians should take the side of those who live for years with this condition to go to save money on aids and what is necessary for us to focus on meticulous blood sugar levels, and can not be reduced to a single instrument, how effective?
and you may not reduce all'utilizo of only one type of needles, and children? And the micro-cracks which may cause defective needles, or who do not comply with EU standards ...? But if you please support all these characters together in the fight against the "welfare".
Hello David
What a shame ...!
Thank you for your comments of support! Hopefully everything will be resolved ...
I take this opportunity to wish you Happy Easter!
Simone
picked the glucometer you look the person before us! Besides being strictly definite must adapt to various needs, which may include: small size for people who carry on business or in any event, with written dimensions larger for older people who see little beyond what many people come to change equipment into confusion, the choice of meter is important and you can not only decide on the cost of the strips!!
Sharing considerations Santina, port it to your attention another aspect to consider: n.ro strips. If the so-called National Health Service chooses me (unfortunately) the meter, but it leaves me a month's supply adequate (at least 150 strips per month), I might as well be omitted. Yet another aspect to consider is the "regionalization" of the health service, some time not more uniform throughout. The uniformity of the NHS it will be increasingly diluting the expense of those living in disadvantaged terrotoriali reality. In Lombardy, however, did not expect this.
At the last meeting in Rome on Minister Fazio and Dr. Paola Pisanti submitted a document to try to work to unify the National Health Unit ... is there anyway to work with and very together and we get to work ... and no doctor Association and quant 'other things you can afford to standardize to a single glucometer and strips, one type of needles given the best offer for a lower price for a material that is definitely bad ... it is absolutely inconceivable to say that to improve we give back the insulins of the past because the cost is lower, when imvece pharmaceutical companies are well aware that the solution we have, but why not pull out? Guess what ... I leave to you the latest thinking, and you can not defer to the fact of accepting any more strips, the problem would remain, however, become even more serious because each of us rightly as Santina says we are different and each with their own needs, a 'senior what is she doing with a tool such as the ultra-smart? him just a simple ... a person who is in need of constant physical activity to have everything clear, carbohydrate counting, insulin units made, the first blood sugar levels after meals and before, during and after activity ... and if we consider a child to learn?
We must bring our experiences and realize in all regions and show her with written documents and certificates from doctors, who still wants to keep his eyes closed the support of politicians and there is strong and we must involve them.
Hello David
July 2011: in Liguria we are trying again!!
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