In the first case, consultations and medical tests are not suspended urgently; however, due to the amount of medical resources that the coronavirus absorbs, there are now many patients who do not seek medical help, as long as there is an emergency. Some successful solicitors will post various monthly revisions to help them recover.
“We have not been able to renew pre-Covid sanitation assistance,” said Carina Escobar, president of the Patient Organizational Platform, and many follow up from a distance (telephone or telematic), which does not provide the necessary proof. to diagnostics and treatment ”.
One of the reasons that explains the current attack is that there are many tests (endoscopies, biopsies) just a negative PCR, according to Jesús García Foncillas, director of the Department of Oncology at the Hospital Foundation Jiménez Díaz. “And this is a straight line in diagnostics, although it has been reduced to a minimum,” he said.
Chronic patients have the most affected cases, according to Escobar, “the sanitary system was installed above all for goodness sake”. To give an example, deaths from infarction are duplicated in the first stage of the pandemic and deaths have reached 28% of patients with infertility syndromes, according to the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC). Do not get rid of other pathologies like cancer or rare diseases.
The biopsies are reduced by 41% and the chemotherapy by 9.5% during the confinement
For Eva Fernández, the epidemic has a varapalo. To his baby, Diego Torronteras, 19 months ago, was late in diagnosing Allan Herndon Dudley syndrome, a disease that causes cerebral palsy more than six months.
“In addition to suspending physiotherapy sessions (twice a week), crucial for these nines, which consume all the advances in the first six years of life, many of these telephones and nines do not progress,” Fernández said. in private, which costs a whopping 700 euros per month.
The Jiménez Díaz Foundation has resumed its rehabilitation, but has been reduced to a weekly session “because it has not been held and it is hoped that the adjudicator will have a temperance center, key to its recovery”.
Other abusive groups
Among the chronic, diabetic patients, on top of all the major mayors, there are great adorns in suspending analysts. Especially for type 2, according to Antonio Pérez, president of the Spanish Diabetes Society. “The management of these patients is carried out in outpatient clinics, does not use continuous monitoring of glucose (glucose sensor) and can not adjust the treatment”, in front of the type 1, which follows the hospital “, indicates.
In addition, he has difficulties in obtaining medicines and control materials of the nurse, assures the head of the endocrine unit of the Hospital de Santa Creu in Sant Pau (Barcelona), which extrapolates to Spain the data of a study of the United Kingdom donde bajaron the diagnostic diagnoses of type 2 diabetes a 70% between March and May.
Mayors with type 2 diabetes, most affected by the suspension of analysts
“Oncological assistance has also been significantly affected,” reconsider García Foncillas. Thus, according to the coronavirus Impact Sanitary Study in Onchematologic Patients on the Counter-Cancer Association, at this stage a reduction of 57% of diagnostic cytologies, 41% of biopsies, and 9.5% of biopsies chemotherapy treatments and the hospital is waiting for a 14% reduction in costs.
“Covid is a tragedy that will accelerate another tragedy and, therefore, it will accelerate the evacuation to rehabilitate the cases and the pressure on the sanitation system,” said Dolors Montserrat, member of the European Parliament’s Public Health and Existing Health Committee. Health. And more, for Sandra Ibarra, president of the Sandra Ibarra Foundation, “it is urgent that hospitals provide assistance protocols for giving attention to cancer patients.”
The same thing happened with the cardiologists. “In these three years, the consequences of the assistance descent will be felt,” advised Angel Cequier, president of the SEC (Spanish Society of Cardiology). “We will put the people on the list of hope for moderate interventions and some failures. And even if they are second to none, we will wait for all the necessary processes, without being able to do all the tests (cardiac rehabilitation, etc.), we will delay months in increasing the anterior assistance level, which is 40% of the structures they absorb the coronavirus ”.
The Hurricane SARS-CoV-2
Treatments. According to the Patient Observatory Platform Observatory, 25% of patients have problems accessing their treatment at the community pharmacy and hospital.
Radiotherapy. The number of patients attending radiotherapy services is down 9%, as well as 5% of treatments with this technique.
Transplants. From March to May, donor transplants in donations will receive a 50%, receive a study from the Spanish Association Against Cancer.
Europe. A new plan from the European Commission will provide 4,000 million euros for the prevention and treatment of cancer. Objective: to evacuate 90% of children with the possibility of contracting the human papilloma virus, among other diseases.
Neurology. 60% of Spanish neurologists confirm that they have reported cases of new diagnostic cognitive deficits during their posterior months in March 2020. That 30% of patients with epilepsy have suffered the most crisis, according to a study by the Spanish Society of Neurology .
Have a. Many gout patients are required to be self-medicated and many are unable to adjust the dose to reduce uric acid.