Doctors to visit slums to detect diabetes
At least 70 teams of doctors and health professional on Sunday began checking the residents of slum clusters for blood pressure and diabetes on the occasion of the World Diabetes Day. The teams will go to 1,180 slums and the entire process will take around three to four months.
Delhi health minister, Prof. Kiran Walia, speaking at the launch of the “urban slum health check-up scheme for diabetes and blood pressure”, which was inaugurated by Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, said that there was also a need to ensure that the poor and needy children of the slums were not deprived of insulin. The minister said that she will hold a meeting of the private and government hospitals to explore the possibility of providing free insulin to the children affected by the disease. She also said that hospitals like Batra, Sunder Lal Jain, Sir Ganga Ram and St. Stephens had already expressed their keenness to join this campaign against diabetes and blood pressure. Every hospital will have a diabetes and blood pressure checking and counselling centre to deal with the problem that is assuming alarming proportion.
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit, expressed concern over the fact that diseases like diabetes were affecting children too. Meanwhile, in line with the United Nations’ resolution to illuminate important archaeological sites and hospitals in blue light to raise awareness about the disease and the need to combat it, Prof. Walia said that seven hospitals and all the important and historic monuments have been so illuminated on Sunday evening.
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