50 mn
Indians to be screened for diabetes
Tuesday July 19, 2011 06:25:24 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: With
lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension posing a huge
health risk to India, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday
said the government is planning to screen over five crore (50
million) people for these ailments before September.
"The WHO and UN has taken note of the gravity of diabetes and
hypertension. We will screen five crore persons before September
2011 when UN General Assembly will hold a special session to
discuss means and measures to control these diseases," he said,
after inaugurating a camp to screen slum-dwellers in Delhi for
lifestyle diseases.
"We all are concerned about non-communicable diseases which become
cause for 50 percent total deaths in the country. It has been
learnt that cancer and diabetes are going to affect our country
badly," Azad said.
The camp is a part of government's initiative to launch a major
drive for free screening of diabetes and hypertension in 100
select districts and 33 cities with more than 10 lakh population.
There are 5.1 crore diabetic patients in India, the second-most in
the world after China. More than 30 lakh people around the world
die due to diabetes every year. In India, 1.75 lakh people died
due to diabetes in 2005 and the number is likely to touch 2.36
lakh in 2015.
Azad also said a pilot project costing Rs.1,230 crore to control
cancer, diabetes, heart diseases and stroke in 100 districts of 21
states and urban slums in 33 cities has been approved.
"Under the pilot project, a cardiac care unit at cost of Rs.1.5
crore will be established at 100 district hospitals," he said,
adding centres for non-communicable diseases will also come up at
100 district hospitals and 700 other places for diagnosis and
management of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and stroke.
Each district hospital will be provided Rs.50,000 for medicines,
Azad added.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who was also present on the
occasion, said the campaign has been focused on slums as the
population there has poor access to health facilities for the
treatment of such life-long conditions.
"The statistics on diabetes and high blood pressure are alarming.
The government is committed to contain damage of such diseases at
the earliest, so that the diseases may not become fatal," she
said.
According to sample survey done by government, the prevalence of
diabetes is around 10 percent in urban adults and 3.5 percent in
rural adults.
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