Russia (bbabo.net), - A Kurgan prosecutor has filed a lawsuit to order the regional health department to provide a disabled child with a continuous blood glucose monitoring system. In the Trans-Urals, there are about 260 children with diabetes who need such a device. Does everyone have to go to court?
As a reminder, the Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring System is a state-of-the-art diabetes control technology that allows you to monitor changes in sugar levels around the clock. The system is a compact transducer with a sensor that is usually worn on the forearm and transmits data to a reader such as a phone. According to these indicators, the patient determines the level of sugar: it rises, falls or remains stable - and, depending on the result, decides whether or not to take the medicine. In addition, the information from the sensor is stored, the data can be shown or sent to the doctor to correct the treatment.
Now diabetics use glucometers and test strips for them. The disadvantage of the device is that for a blood test you have to constantly pierce your finger with a needle. Patients with the first type of the disease do this up to ten or more times a day. According to one of the mothers, her child already has all the fingers in holes. The question is, why should small children endure pain when there has long been an alternative painless way? For children with type 1 diabetes, a continuous glucose monitoring system is required by law - it is included by the Ministry of Health in the federal standard of medical care.
The authorities of the Kurgan region explained: children with diabetes and eligible for a set of social services are provided with medical products in accordance with the list approved by the government of the Russian Federation. Products for the study of blood glucose by the method of continuous monitoring are not available.
"The Department of Health has repeatedly sent letters to the Ministry of Health with a request to consider the possibility of adding continuous glucose monitoring systems to this list," Deputy Governor for Social Policy Larisa Kokorina said on the official page of the regional government on the social network. "According to preliminary estimates, to provide adults and children with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, who need such systems in the first place, in 2022 the Kurgan region will need about 40 million rubles, including about 28 million for children."
According to the deputy governor, data on the region have been sent to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, work continues. Mothers ingenuously cannot understand what the list has to do with it, if there are laws of direct action. In Yamal, for example, they did not wait for the list to be revised, but themselves amended the regional law “On Health Care” and from the new year, all children with type 1 diabetes will be provided with smart gadgets (“Benefits in 2022: for sick children, doctors and business", . Thanks to this, almost 230 families will saverage of 150 thousand rubles per year - approximately the same amount is needed for one child. And in a number of other regions, decisions were made in favor of sick children.
- Let's say there are no 40 million in the region, - says the chairman of the regional diabetic society Natalya Vorobyova. - But these devices are not issued even to those children who have the decision of the medical commission in their hands: provide! That's what's scary.
In late December and early January, mothers organized a series of pickets outside the health department demanding that their children be given what they are legally entitled to. Now the prosecutor's office has intervened. As admitted in the diabetic society, they will follow the trial closely, because then others will go to court. Activists do not yet see an alternative way.
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