The federal project “Fighting Diabetes Mellitus” has provided equipment for continuous glucose monitoring for approximately 50,000 children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. This was reported by Deputy Minister of Health of Russia Evgenia Kotova.
“Since the end of 2023, a passport for the federal project “Fighting Diabetes Mellitus” has been developed, which provides for the provision of all children with type 1 diabetes mellitus with means for continuous glucose monitoring. And there are about 50 thousand of these children – appropriate medical products have already been purchased for them, funds have been provided,” Kotova said at the plenary session of the Congress of Russian Pediatricians.
