Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, June 28: A Diabetes awareness programme cum detection camp held at village Bhanara in Block Majalta here today.
The programme was organized under the aegis of Govt of India’s National Programme for Control of Diabetes and Non-Communicable Diseases in collaboration with Diabetes Care Foundation (DCF), a registered NGO.
Free medical consultation as well as medicines were provided to the villagers by a team of specialists led by Dr Jitendra Singh. Also present on the occasion were Dr Bhavana, Dr Nagpal, Prog Director Ms Ronica, DCF activist Varun Malhotra and prominent local activist Chandra Prakash Gupta.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that the camp is a part of the DCF campaign to reach out to people in remote areas which are usually deprived of easy access to health care facilities, he added.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Singh said that in rural areas the symptoms of Diabetes remain undetected for several years as a result of which the village and rural patients succumb to kidney, heart and eye complications besides foot amputations which leave them incapacitated. Lack of specialized medical help coupled with lack of diagnostic or screening facilities contribute to this dismal rural health scenario, he added.
Referring to spurt of Diabetes in rural areas, Dr Jitendra Singh said that people living in villages and semi-urban areas are also now gradually switching over to dietary habits and life style culture of city folk. The level of stress has also tremendously gone up in traditionally peaceful rural areas while the level of physical activity has gone down, he added.
Dr Jitendra Singh said the DCF will also arrange for future follow-up treatment and investigation of newly detected cases of Diabetes from the rural areas where it holds camps.
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