Camagüey assures attention to diabetic pregnant

A center of attention to the pregnant diabetic plan to be created in this county before concluding the first trimester of the present year, like part of the National Cuban Program of Integral Attention to the Pregnant with Diabetes.

The installation will have 18 enabled services in the prevention of the illness, and for it are receiving the resources, the teams and the medications that will facilitate the effective attention to the pregestationals and gestationals patient.

The city of Camagüey is one of the first in Cuba, after Havana, where they will offer these services, keeping in mind that one of the biggest indexes of diabetic women presents in fertile age, with a figure of around 3 500, of those more than 43 000 that exist in the Island.

This county had one of the three initial shops for the development from the program to national level since the project arose, and it was one of the first where independent consultations were created about reproductive risk in suffered women of diabetes.

The doctor Antonio Manuel Márquez Guillén, national responsible of the program, affirmed that this is the only country where experiences of this type have begun, even when have not been carried out in nations that possess advanced technology.

Since the implementation began from the program to national level have not happened more maternal deaths attributed to the diabetes mellitus, fact that already corroborates its impact, declared the specialist avezado.

The budget to give to light to the project has been facilitated by the non government organization World Diabetes Foundation (WDF), the one that recognized the importance of the program and valued its multiplication in developing nations, under the advice of the group of Cuban work. (Dalgys Zurita Jaime)