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Tokyo Twilight "The government recognizes the true nature of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Post-viral but sets a timetable for implementation '

Article written by John Palma Gutiérrez, having CFS lawyer and author of "The so-called sickness syndrome Chronic Fatigue and its problems "and published in the January / March 2011 The Toga , online magazine of the Bar Association of Seville. You can read an author's previous article entitled" Ten Reasons on urgent legal recognition of SFC "also published in The Robe on the issue August / October 2008. (Introduction by Eva Caballé).

The recognition of the true nature of CFS, it is clear Response of the Government of the Nation, a written question to the President of the Commission for Health Congress Deputies, Hon. D. Gaspar Llamazares Trigo, addressed to the table in this House, Question No. 184, published in the Official Gazette of the Parliament of 23 September 2010, number 447. This question reads literally:

"In connection with the SFC, and the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization, called ICD-9 and ICD-10, respectively, have agreed to Spain, called ICD-10 International Classification of 1992, or continues to accept and use the old ICD-9-1977? "(...)

The English Government's response to that question, (Of vital importance for the diagnosis and treatment of this serious disease, which is virtually unknown today, back to reality, and deprives patients this large group of fundamental rights such as Health, Work, entitlement to social security benefits etc.) is as follows:

"The International Classification of Diseases World Health Organization, is the main inventory which gathers disease and health related problems, and is of universal application for the registration and statistical processing of health information. The current version included among the families of Classifications WHO, the ICD-10 version (as we know it fits the SFC in the chapter of Neurological Disease, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis treated as Post-Viral, in Section G. 93, 3) "

However, (adding that response from the Government), in Spain and for the completion of the reports of Alta, and as a standard clinical coding, the classification used is the ICD 9 CM, (9 th version of the ICD, Clinical Modification .) As we know it includes the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in section 780. 71, within the group of symptoms, signs and ill-defined (for which can not make a specific diagnosis), and whose causes or etiology are unknown.