II National Day of the child with diabetes

A day dedicated to diabetes in childhood. E 'initiative launched for Saturday, September 26th by the Italian Society Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (SIEDP) in all Italian centers of pediatric diabetology. In Locride to give kids the opportunity to attend numerous, it was decided to organize Friday, September 25th at the Conference Hall of the Hospital of Locri, starting from 16.30 a demonstration with the involvement of health workers, children with diabetes and their families, associations, citizens of Locride. An initiative to learn, discuss, reflect on a disease became common, but often ignored in environments where children and teenagers grow up and live with the objective of promoting knowledge and awareness about what it means to have diabetes at an early age. The program is a presentation by Dr. Francis Ma, the "network" pediatric diabetes care that has been defined and approved by resolution by the Management Company strategy based on the recommendations that the Regional Council voted in June last year. It is an integrated care pathways between hospital and territory, which calls for special attention to the role of family and school, or in contexts where the child lives with her illness. The Center for pediatric diabetology 's Operative Unit of Pediatrics' s Hospital of Locri in place following a significant number of babies, children and young people with diabetes from all over the territory of the Locri area. The Center of Locri had, recently, a significant official recognition by the Region of Calabria, the organization of regional network of care, including thirteen pediatric reference hospitals, has awarded Locri coordination functions. Will follow the awards ceremony by the Director-General Dr. Justin Ranieri, a boy with diabetes followed at the Center of Locri, who last August 23, the Olympic Stadium in Geneva, with the colors of blue jersey 's Italy, won the European final of the Junior Cup Diabetes 2009 (Class junior) football championship to seven, beating the team from Spain. After the Italian tournament selection, with the knockout matches played between Rome, Milan and the final in Coverciano, Italy, the very young has proved stronger than in other European teams. In eight countries joined the European tournament with over 200 boys: Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Great Britain and 'International' composed of children from Hungary, Israel, Lithuania and Turkey. The real challenge for the young participants was to demonstrate to themselves and others that the condition of children with insulin dependent diabetes does not prevent sports and achieve important goals. All this thanks to the latest innovative therapies, such as integrated systems of insulin infusion and continuous monitoring of glucose. These systems, available for a short time in Italy, thanks to skilled expertise of Dr. Mariella Bruzzese, that deals with children with diabetes, are now used at the Center of Locri from some of the boys followed, and among these, there's just John, the "small Gattuso. Locride of that with his victory, gave great satisfaction to the whole of Calabria. Thanks, John. Operative Unit of Pediatrics