Neonatal screening only applies to 20 per cent of children
Posted on June 27, 2010
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Neonatal screening is a program that is used to identify some problems related to genetics, endocrinology, metabolism, or infection in newborns, which is to be ready in case a disease is close to the child’s health.
However, according to data provided by the Spanish Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology (SEQC) only a fifth of Spanish newborns receive this basic service to prevent and combat diseases.
Jose Luis Marin, president of the SEQC, says that “technological development allows much low-cost analysis, including automated in many different rare diseases, especially metabolic disorders and genetic disorders in general.”
That is why the National Health System proposes to take a balanced and fair access to this service in all the Autonomous Communities. For example Galicia comprehensive screening program in their jurisdiction in 2000, followed Murcia and Andalusia, as well as Aragon and Extremadura, which are well on track to reach a sufficiently disseminated to all.
But these places do not constitute the entire country, so it is necessary that the rest starts to do their part to bring this service to all patients.
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