The Maltese Diabetes Association (MDA) has urged authorities to clarify the government’s intentions beyond the six-month pilot to provide free continuous glucose monitors (CGM) to diabetic children.
The project, announced for the first time in 2018, started at the beginning of this year with the aim of making CGMs available to all children and adolescents under the age of 16 living with type 1 diabetes. However, this six-month pilot project is coming to an end, which is why parents are curious to see whether this project will be extended.
In a statement published by the MDA, the association announced that this project is expected to be completed in around eight weeks.
The CGM is an innovative and important device that enables you to monitor and analyze your own diabetes around the clock. The results of these CGMs have not only been successful in patients in Malta, but there is also evidence of research abroad on the tremendous utility of CGMs in the treatment of diabetes.
The success of diabetes management is making sure that blood sugar levels are constantly monitored. This can be achieved through the effective use of a CGM device.
The association wanted to extend the pilot project to all patients with type 1 diabetes, regardless of age.
“People living with diabetes in Malta should enjoy the same benefits as in other EU countries. This includes the effective use of CGMs for anyone living with diabetes. This should be viewed as a long term investment that would effectively lead to better control ”and management of one’s own diabetes. People living with diabetes in Malta deserve it, “the Association said said.
Parents of around 200 children who use this device during this pilot have found a huge difference in the way they manage their children’s diabetes. In addition to improving diabetes control and blood glucose readings, the CGM made things easier when their kids were in school or doing extra curriculum activities, and seen dramatic improvements in their children’s blood glucose readings.
