Five years of broken promises, health tricks to practitioners of the diet and nutrition of the Comunitat Valenciana and also society.
valencia, February 2012- February 18, 2007, date that almost any dietista-nutricionista will forget and not the official Association of Dietitians and nutritionists of the Comunitat Valenciana (CODiNuCoVa), which at the time was still Association. The Valencia Health Department committed to the creation of the Professional category of dietistas-nutricionistas to direct the nutrition units of all Valencian hospitals, integrated in the Endocrinology service ”, for ensure the optimal design of hospital menus ”, as a committed to improving the care of each patient and their quality of life ”, through training of patients in eating habits ”, development and follow-up of protocols according to the needs of the various units of hospitalization ”, activities of teaching staff in this area ” and the improvement of research in nutritional ” (1-2).
Not only have failed, but that does not seem to have willingness to live up to their promises.
According to the who, all regional hospitals of 360-800 beds, and the middle of 70-150 beds, should count on the presence of dietistas-nutricionistas, in an approximate ratio of a dietista-nutricionista for each 50 beds (3-4).
That the Valencian Government has not wanted to see in these years is that with the presence of the dietista-nutricionista in hospitals, other countries such as United States, Japan or United Kingdom, where savings of health expenditure data, are dropped 23 per cent mortality rate, a 11.6% the time of hospital admission43% in readmission of patients and 50% in hospital complications. According to us, for every dollar invested in wages of dietistas-nutricionistas and materials for nutrition units, are saved $4.20 (5-8).
Fuente:
(1) The Mediterranean newspaper .
(2) provinces .
(3) World Health Organization: World Assembly of health 1974, 1976 and 1982.
(4) Recommendations of the Council of Europe (ResAP 2003) on food and nutritional care in hospitals
(5) Position of the American Dietetic Association: The role of dietetics professionals in health promotion and disease prevention. 2002
(6) American Dietetic Association: Nutrition support team management of patients in a community hospital cost-beneficial is fed enterally.
(7) Nippon Geka Gakkai Zasshi: The roles of to nutrition support team.
(8) Patients go hungry in british hospitals. BMJ. 1997
Was also published in La razon and in another newspaper but has not been able to recover.
