Esmerate attention to the diabetic patient in Camagüey

Camagüey -Preceded by City of Havana, the county of Camagüey is the second of Cuba with bigger incidence of the diabetes mellitus, because in its population there are more than 39 thousand 200 suffered by that illness.

Before this situation, the Center of attention to the diabetic patient in the capital city, carries out every week cycles of entrance national health clinic, to educate those people in a coexistence with the illness that favors its quality of life.

Remitted by the areas of health and policlinics, are subjected there to a checkup pre-entrance that includes analysis of blood, of urine, control of the arterial tension and nutrition evaluations, among other, to determine the treatment that will receive in next seven days.

During that cycle are practiced metabolic analysis several times a day, are modified the levels of insulin prewritten according to require , and learn how to be applied the medication or different analysis types for the control of the glucemia at home, said to the AIN the doctor Eneisy Basulto Marrero, directress of the institution.

She added that the center has educational function because receive conferences on the manifestations of the diabetes, the danger of the lesions in the feet and the importance of a diet of specific calories and low concentrations of salt and fatty.

In the week of entrance, the patient carries out the breakfasts, the snacks and the lunches to adapt to a balanced nutrition and to familiarize with the macrobiotic diet, of high desintoxic value, commented Alfredo Vicente Betancourt, cook of the center.

A multidisciplinary team makes a valuation individual oftalmology, endocrinology, of angiology and podology, and after compliment the entrance each patient can attend an orientation consultation and advice.

The personnel's careful work and the quality of the services allows to this institution to be included inside the achievements that the sector of the health Camagüey will exhibit in its next congress, as informed the AIN Vicente Roque Álvarez, general secretary of that union in the county.(Lianet Leandro López )