Coming soon in India – a low-cost device to check your
blood sugar levels in just one minute!
A low cost testing device which promises to be a boon for
diabetic patients by detecting their sugar level in less than a minute with
much lesser amount of blood will be available in the next six to 12 months,
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said. Replying to a question in Lok Sabha, he
said the Indian Council for Medical-supported research in IIT, Mumbai, and
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, had developed two devices
and testing strips for the estimation of blood glucose.
‘These devices would be available to people in the next six
to 12 months,’ he said. Testing blood sugar levels from this device will take
just about a minute and may cost less than Rs 2 and require 1,000 times less
blood than what glucose meters currently use, official sources said. Read how often you should check your
blood glucose levels
This rapid test will be a blessing for India in meeting its
target of screening all people above 30 years of age for diabetes in the coming
years. Explaining the steps taken by his ministry to ensure easy availability
of necessary medicines and devises to people at an affordable cost, Azad told
the Lok Sabha that glucometers, glucostrips and lancets are provided to NCD
clinics and 5.33 crore persons have been screened. About 6.13 per cent of them
suspected to have diabetes.
As many as 61.3 million people in India suffer from
diabetes, and according to estimates, one in every 5 people in India will be
diabetic by 2025. Being diagnosed with the disease not only leads to changes in
lifestyle and diet, but it could also lead to a variety of other ailments
ranging from kidney disease to nerve damage. This makes it an urgent concern
and we from health.india.com have announced a War on Diabetes. In this post, we’ll
tell you everything you need to know about the condition.
08.02.2014
15,800
additional MBBS seats to be created in country
New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI) With the availability of doctors being a dismal 0.5
for every 1,000 persons in the country, the Centre has proposed to create an
additional 15,800 MBBS seats, Lok Sabha was informed today. ”The current
doctor-population ratio in the country is approximately 1:1,700, yielding a
density of 0.5 doctors per thousand people, which is not adequate,” Minister
for Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad, said in a statement. Azad said
that as per a high-level expert group report which has been presented to Planning
Commission, an additional 187 medical colleges are required in under-served
districts during the 12th and 13th Plans.
The Union government has approved three centrally sponsored
schemes aimed at, among others, upgrading 58 district hospitals into medical
colleges and increasing undergraduate and postgraduate seats at government
medical colleges, he added. To facilitate the setting up of more medical
colleges, the Centre has also amended the regulations for teacher-student
ratio, land requirement, bed strength, bed occupancy, maximum admission
capacity, etc. he said. As a solution to the problem of land availability,
a proposal has also been okayed for the setting up of split campuses of
government medical colleges at two separate locations, which, however, have to
be situated within 10km of each other, he added. Read the burden of being a doc in this day
and age.
08.02.2014
Don’t waste
words on people who deserve your silence, sometimes the most powerful thing you
can say is nothing at all
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