Diabetes Day: Diabetic screening clinic opened at LGH
Pharmaceutical companies set up stalls where blood sugar, cholesterol, other investigations are carried out for free
LAHORE:
A modern Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Clinic was inaugurated at Lahore General Hospital in connection with World Diabetes Day. The day is observed each year on November 14. This year the day was celebrated under the theme Act Today to Change Tomorrow. A walk was arranged to educate citizens about diabetics. Pharmaceutical companies had set up stalls where blood sugar, cholesterol and related investigations were carried out free of cost. The Diabetes Endocrine and Metabolic Centre (DEMC) had also set up a stall to educate participants about different types of food and their caloric value. A seminar followed by a question-answer session was also arranged.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2014.
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