November is the month with the highest number of events in diabetes
On 14 November we celebrate World Diabetes Day, which is also the birth date of the discoverer of insulin and Nobel Prize winner in medicine, Frederick Banting MD. And to mark the occasion, representatives from the Division of Diabetes are actively involved in several events and meetings during the month of November.
On 10 November, we actively participated in a prevention event called CUKROVKA CO DÁL in the Nový Smíchov shopping centre in Prague, where we cooperated with Novo Nordisk. During this event, the glycaemia of more than four hundred visitors was measured and several new cases of diabetes were identified. We equipped them with glucose meters, provided education on self-monitoring of glycaemia and recommended an early visit to a GP. They were attended to on site by Quoc Dat Do, MD, a diabetes nurse and a nutritional therapist from the Diabetology Centre at the VFN. Interested participants also had their eye background scans and other risk factors were measured, mainly increasing cardiovascular risks. The challenge at the entrance was the slogan “Don’t let diabetes break your heart”.
Ascensia, the company whose glucose measurement system we supply, also held a traditional teleconference for nurses, to which we invited our collaborating nurses. On 9 November, a roundtable meeting with a webinar was organised in Jindřichův Hradec.
In parallel, we attended an educational event for health professionals at the POKLAD cultural centre in Ostrava Poruba, where the 10th annual conference Multidisciplinary approach in the care of diabetic feet (not only) took place. The conference featured 15 speakers and 19 presentations, mainly focused on the care of patients with diabetes. The event was held under the auspices of prominent representatives of the Ostrava medical community. MUDr. Rastislav Maďar, PhD., MBA, FRCPS, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ostrava; prof. MUDr. Jan Václavík, Ph.D., FESC, Head of the Internal Medicine Clinic of the Ostrava University Hospital) and the conference was traditionally sponsored by MUDr. Miroslav Koliba, Ph.D., MBA, MHA, LL.M., President of the Czech Podiatric Society. Our society is a traditional participant of this conference, where diabetologists from IKEM and Motol Hospital in Prague, as well as from Zlín and Ostrava presented their findings. In addition, orthopaedists, surgeons and other specialists who deal with the treatment and diagnosis of diabetic foot syndrome in their practice. In most of the lectures it resonated again that the most effective prevention of diabetic foot is regular reliable self-monitoring of glycaemia and functional therapy based on the results of self-monitoring.
The following day we attended the conference in Chotěbor at the invitation of MUDr. Mgr. Sylvia Špitálnikova, Ph.D., the preventive event March against Diabetes, where we presented a lecture on self-monitoring of glycemia, technically ensured the measurement of glycemia and educated interested participants.
The culmination of our activities was the participation in the XXIV. Šimurda Days of Diabetics in Luhačovice. Promedica has been a proud partner of this largest patient event for several years. The traditional meeting was attended by about 200 patients with type 1 diabetes. As it was found by the survey, our glucometers are very popular with insulin pump users for control calibrations of continuous monitoring systems and also with those who refuse sensors for some reason for the time being.
Finally, on Wednesday and Thursday 22-23 November we participated with lectures and workshops in the model convalescent stay of the Association of Diabetics of the Czech Republic and the Alliance of Patients with Diabetes of the Czech Republic in the MAS Hotel in Sezimovo Ústí. More than 70 participants, especially organizers of the convalescent stays, got acquainted with the Contour system, which will be used to ensure mandatory measurement of glycaemia at most convalescent stays. The Association of Diabetics organizes more than fifty of these annually with a total participation of over 1,550 diabetics.
We are pproud to be able to contribute to better glycaemic control and care for diabetics. Our priority remains the promotion of prevention and education in the field of diabetes, which we have again confirmed at lectures and workshops focused on this topic. We look forward to further opportunities to contribute to improving diabetes care.
Diabetology division