The Health Promotion Foundation has started a project to build 3000 clinics across the country to treat 33 million people with diabetes. The first clinic was established in Karachi’s Nazimabad area.
Under the project, primary, secondary and tertiary care clinics established across the country will provide free consultancy, medicines and tests at discounted rates.
Diabetic experts say that 400,000 people suffer from diabetes annually in Pakistan, the aim of the project is to save people from disability and to provide health facilities to white-collared people.
National Diabetes Network has been started to establish 3000 diabetes clinics across the country under Health Promotion Foundation. Three thousand diabetes clinics will be established across the country under the Health Promotion Foundation, Bakai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology.
The inauguration ceremony of the project was held in Karachi on Monday night, with Sulaiman Chawla, Senior Vice President of the Federation of All Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry as the chief guest.
Health Promotion Foundation Chairman Imtiaz Zuberi, Vice Chairman and Diabetic Specialist Prof. Abdul Basit, General Secretary Dr. Zafar Iqbal Abbasi, Prof. Muhammad Yaqub Ahmadani, Mukhtar Ahmed and Prof. Ashar Fawad were also present on this occasion.
Sulaiman Chawla said that the efforts and efforts Dr. Abdul Basit and his team are making to prevent diabetes are commendable. Because of this, this country is stable today.
He further said that the dedication with which this small team is working should be appreciated. On this occasion, he announced that he would bear the entire cost of one out of three thousand clinics.
He said that diabetes is a silent disease, if not controlled it becomes a life-threatening and disabling disease, so we have to make people aware that they can avoid this disease by adopting a healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Abdul Basit, vice-chairman of the project and a well-known diabetes specialist, said that Pakistan is at the third place in the world in terms of sugar statistics and there are 33 million diabetic patients in the country and 400,000 people suffer from foot ulcers every year. Due to which they become disabled for life.
Professor Abdul Basit said that the project of establishing 3000 clinics to control diabetes is the result of 26 years of hard work. Earlier we started foot clinics and established a network of 150 foot clinics in Pakistan which has resulted in a significant reduction in foot and leg amputations.
He said that they are making shoes for diabetic patients so that the feet of diabetic patients do not get sore and prevent them from disability, these shoes are also provided very cheaply compared to the market.
Dr. Abdul Basit said that so far he has screened 77 thousand patients and provided shoes to 10 thousand. They are giving free insulin to 2,000 children in Sindh and 252 children in Balochistan, soon they are going to give insulin to another 3,000 children in the country.
He further said that there are 50 thousand patients of type one diabetes in Pakistan and 33 million patients of type two diabetes and projects should be started for them.
Prof. Abdul Basit further said that a pharmaceutical company has started a plan to give insulin at half price which is being provided to the patients through them.
He said that he has created a diabetes registry which has been established after 8 years of hard work and the government of Pakistan is sponsoring it.
Dr. Abdul Basit said that the 3,000 clinics established by him will be primary care level clinics, with secondary care centers above them and tertiary care centers above them.
He said that patients will be examined free of cost at these clinics and will not charge any fee while medicines will be given at half price.
Imtiaz Zuberi, chairman of the project, said that the health promotion was established in 2017 and its aim was to provide health services to the white-collared people, people who cannot afford the cost of treatment due to inflation.
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