For its “first visible action”, since it came into action at the end of January, the Professional Territorial Health Community (CPTS) Sud Cher, which “brings together health professionals and covers 42,000 inhabitants of the south of the department, around Saint-Amand-Montrond”, recalls the biologist Alexandre Janel, its vice-president, is mobilizing once morest diabetes.
This pathology affects more than 3.5 million people in France, according to data from Public Health France published in 2021. is when there are complications and it’s too late”, breathes Alexandre Janel.
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Hence the idea of the CPTS Sud Cher to carry out, in October and November, an operation of “early detection” of diabetes, “to anticipate these possible complications”, in a territory where, he relates, “ 30% of the population has no attending physician, according to figures from Health Insurance”.
Saint-Amandoise pharmacist Marie-Laure Ouairy, deputy secretary of the CPTS, summarizes the interest of getting tested quickly: “The sooner we are taken care of, the more the sugar will disappear from the blood and the less damage it will do in the organs. »
Avoid complications
“For two months, we therefore invite the inhabitants of our geographical area to come and be tested in one of the eight partner pharmacies”, indicates Alexandre Janel. Who details: “Four are in Saint-Amand-Montrond, the others are at the different cardinal points of the CPTS sector
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“It’s open to anyone over the age of 18,” adds another pharmacist from Saint-Amandoise, Françoise Grelet, who is also a member of the board of directors of the CPTS Sud Cher. The only ones excluded from the system are those who are already known to have diabetes because they are already covered. » premium
Report on perinatality: a “worrying” development in France Once in a participating pharmacy, “the first stage of the operation”, according to Alexandre Janel, the patient is offered screening. “He must answer a questionnaire, with different items, in order to assess the cardiovascular risk, explains Françoise Grelet. We also take some measurements, such as weight. We are looking for the risk factors that make a person susceptible to developing diabetes. Finally, blood sugar is measured.(glucose level, therefore sugar, content in the blood, Editor’s note)
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“We do not let the patient go into nature with his diabetes”
“If the result is correct, everything is fine, we just give advice on how to prevent diabetes, underlines Marie-Laure Ouairy. On the other hand, if the result is not within the norm, the patient is encouraged to go to the medical biology laboratory of Saint-Amand-Montrond which will take over with a more thorough blood test. »
Starts, then, the third and last stage. Alexandre Janel explains: “When the patient is identified, we do not let him go into the wild with his diabetes and the stress that it can cause. We accompany him, support is put in place. Either we contact the attending physician, when there is one; or, when this is not the case, the person is referred to the endocrinologist at the Saint-Amand-Montrond hospital center with whom we have made an agreement. »
“In a medically deserted area like ours, there is no question of leaving patients who have just been diagnosed without support”, assures Françoise Grelet.
No euro is to be paid for those who are screened. “It is the CPTS Sud Cher, as part of its action coordination missions, which finances the health professionals who intervene and the integrated path of the patient”, says Alexandre Janel.
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It is not possible to name the pharmacies involved in the diabetes screening operation.