Free diabetes camps in over 200 cities in India to detect unnoticed cases

Free diabetes camps in over 200 cities in India to detect unnoticed cases
Mass diabetes check-up camps organised aiming to detect cases which go unnoticed.

‘People can have free diabetes check-up along with the free consultation of doctors at every camp,’ it added. ‘Prevalence of diabeteshas more than doubled for men in India (3.7 per cent to 9.1 per cent). It has also increased by 80 per cent among women in India (4.6 per cent to 8.3 per cent),’ said Pradeep Gadge, Director of Diabetes Care Centre. ‘China leads in numbers followed by India. It is high time that people need to be made aware of this dreaded disease and patient education can go a long way in curbing this diabetes epidemic,’ Gadge added. ‘Education can make a huge change in the area of diabetes. Hence, when IIT students approached me for this campaign, I readily agreed. We named it as CURED campaign,’ Gadge said. (Read: Which of these 10 early symptoms of diabetes do you have?)

Source: IANS

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