PN promises free continuous monitors for all diabetes patients

The Nationalist Party has reiterated a promise to provide free glucose monitoring devices to all diabetes type 1 patients, irrespective of age.
PN leader Bernard Grech told supporters in Siġġiewi that a Nationalist government would focus on a national strategy on diabetes, provide free monitoring and introduce more medicines for all diabetic patients. 
A similar pledge was made by the PN before the last budget.  Monitors are currently given out by the government to patients aged under 16. 

Labour has also made a similar pledge in its electoral manifesto.
“Apart from taking care of diabetic patients, we will also increase the number of diabetes nurses in hospitals and in the community,” Grech said.
A Nationalist government would also draw up a national action plan for specialised healthcare centers for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and dementia. 
“We want to invest in our population, the health in our people, unlike the government, that continues to pay Steward Healthcare millions,” he said. 
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