Consultation: Free camp for diabetics at Dow’s Ojha campus

Prof. Shaikh said that 10 per cent of the people in the country suffer from diabetes, 46 per cent were women

KARACHI: The National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology (NIDE), Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), organised a week-long free consultation and a free test camp at its Ojha campus. The camp was inaugrated on  Tuesday by the vice chancellor of DUHS, and the director of NIDE.

Prof. Shaikh said that 10 per cent of the people in the country suffer from diabetes and out of them 46 per cent were women and 54 per cent were men. But more women die of complications than men, though.

According to Shaikh, complications mostly develop in the retina of the eyes, kidneys and the heart because most of the patients do not take adequate insulin doses.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 11^th, 2012.