The website, named 'www.stopdiabetesindia.com' has been created by Swasthya, a city-based medical centre in association with national and international research organisations.
Chief justice of Gujarat high court, SJ Mukhopadhaya launched a website to create awareness and fight diabetes, at the AMA hall on Sunday.
The website, named www.stopdiabetesindia.com has been created by Swasthya, a city-based medical centre in association with national and international research organisations. The website will cover all aspects of the lifestyle disease and aims at creating awareness and answer people's query on it.
Dr Mayur Patel of Swasthya had conceived the website under his project 'Stop Diabetes,' which he had launched on November 14 last year.
Speaking on the occasion, justice Mukhopadhaya said, "Generally, I do not like to attend functions which are not related to law or judiciary. However, as this was a doctors' function, I agreed to come as I had started my career as a medical representative before joining law profession."
The chief justice further said, "Roaming till late in the night, habit of eating junk food, stressful work, habit of living in air condition rooms etc leads one to develop high levels of blood sugar."
Sharing his personal experience, Mukhopadhaya said, "Yoga and prayanam can be a remedy of the malady. I had a high level of blood cholesterol of 415 once but when I started yoga, I saw results in one month and it come down to 85."
Talking to media persons, Dr Patel said, "India is the diabetes capital of the world with 33 million patients having been recorded in 2003. Gujarat has the maximum number of people with diabetes in the country due to the eating habits. Now, it is even diagnosed among those in 40s and worst, even among school-going children. If proper preventive steps are not taken, the figure can escalate to 80.9 million by 2030."
The project will work towards improving health care delivery system to the people by training around 1,200 community doctors and about 2,000 nurses and other paramedical staff for early detection and proper management of diabetes, Dr Patel said.
Swashthya and Lions Club International, on Saturday, also held a diabetes camp at Maninagar wherein around 300 doctors were trained for treatment of diabetes around 700 people went under test for the disease. Suresh Shah, district governor of the Lions Club, also advised people to take care and prevent diabetes. Dr. Ina Mayur Patel welcomed the chief justice to the launch function.
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