Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 3: Focusing on the need for preventive measures like maintaining healthy lifestyle, dietary preferences, physical activity, Dr. Sushil Sharma, HoD Cardiology, GMC Jammu today conducted a day long camp with the residents of village Kot on the outskirts of Jammu City highlighting the prevalence of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes which has rapidly increased over the past 30 years with consequential increase in the prevalence of microvascular and macrovascular diabetes complications.
He said that diabetes is a huge and growing burden for many countries across the world. “It is a serious, common, costly yet manageable disease. It is one of the leading causes of death in India and ironically India currently represents 50% of the world’s diabetic burden. Often known as the diabetes capital of the world, India has been witnessing an alarming rise in cases of diabetes. This presents a serious public health challenge to a country facing a future of high population growth and less sensitivity of people towards this problem. The severity of the problem becomes compounded when it invites array of health issues in its company. It is the leading cause of kidney failure, cardiovascular disease and peripheral vascular diseases. Diabetes is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease with nearly 60% of people with diabetes die from cardiovascular disease,” Dr Sharma said.
He said to reduce the prevalence of diabetes and its consequential damages on heart, kidney, eyes, brain and peripheral vessels, there is a dire need to be vigilant about diagnosis and proper management of complications, both microvascular and macrovascular. Various preventive measure like maintaining healthy lifestyle and population level risk factors such as tobacco use, blood pressure, high cholesterol needs to be taken care to mitigate the already growing burden of CVD, he added.
More than 200 people were screened, evaluated and diagnosed for various health ailments. Free medicines were also given as per the requirements and blood sugar, ECG, Lipid profile test were also done.
Others, who were part of this humane effort included, Dr. Nasir Ali Choudhary and Dr Dhaneshwar Kapoor. Paramedics and volunteers, who were part of the team, included Kamal Sharma, Raghav Rajput, Gourav Sharma, Vikas Kumar, Anmol Singh, Aman Gupta, Akshay Kumar, Maninder Singh, Sandeep Kohli and Raj Kumar.
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