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The municipal MC Group requested at the next municipal plenary, which will take place on Thursday, September 8, which urge the CARM to school dowry nursing schools in Cartagena and Shire.

Spokesman MC, Francisco Calderon, said that "recently have contacted us parents of diabetic children, denouncing the problems suffered in day to day with their children in schools of Cartagena, where there still exists figure the school nurse. "

Thus, this deficiency was assumed that children with diabetes are in a situation of helplessness to go to their schools, where "parents are obstacles when to dispense proper attention to their children during school hours", he has indicated Calderon, who also added that "find it difficult even to keep in the refrigerator an injection of glycogen with which to react to a hypothetical severe hypoglycemia, a situation that could even cause death to children."

It is recalled that currently there is no responsible qualified centers to inject insulin to children, "able to verify," he pointed spokesman MC, "that are occurring situations such as that kids can not go on study tour because no one from the school responsible for supervising insulin doses, the amounts of food in relation to injected insulin or because night control to be performed at three in the morning. "

Calderon said that the aim of these cartageneros parents is that schools in Cartagena and its region a professional nursing school for the front dowry.

It could also participate in the control and monitoring of students with chronic diseases, in cases of epilepsy or asthma, in the early detection of health problems, as well as attention to cases requiring immediate medical care.

Finally, Francisco Calderon recalled that "the school nurse is not new and yes a need, being implemented in other regions and European countries for years, while the CARM has performed experimentally in two centers in the region, but he has not finalized its implementation, leaving all mere intentions. "

Source: MC