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Nutritionists advocate co-payment for tube feeding
The Order of Nutritionists today defended the co-payment of tube feeding in outpatient care, after it was favourably received by all political parties in Tuesday's parliamentary debate.
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"The Order of Nutritionists advocates for the co-payment of enteral and parenteral nutrition in an outpatient setting, as a way of combating malnutrition, its implications for health and economic consequences for the country", reads a statement.
According to the president Liliana Santos, quoted in the statement, it is "urgent to materialize the co-payment", in order to "allow health care accessible to the entire population, not marginalizing citizens with fewer resources to an unequal condition".
"The Order of Nutritionists considers it pertinent to give a firm sign of commitment to the best international practices, placing itself on the side of approving a diploma as comprehensive as possible, also judging that this is the right time for this purpose", it emphasizes.
The organization argues that with the "increase in the prevalence of malnutrition and the number of patients, it is essential to improve the nutritional care available, ensuring early and effective nutritional intervention for patients at nutritional risk or malnourished".
"Malnutrition is one of the causes of hospital readmission, with associated costs for health and for the sustainability of the National Health Service. Nutritional care is a right, which must be recognized urgently and responsibly, integrated as part of the treatment and therapy instituted", it observes.
On Tuesday, all political parties expressed themselves in favor of co-payment of food supplements for people with Crohn's disease.
The basis of the discussion in parliament was the petition on the co-payment of the complete powdered diet Modulen IBD for people with Crohn's disease, which was submitted to the Assembly of the Republic on November 21, 2022, with 10,510 signatures.
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