GMC&AH Rajouri & CHC Kotranka celebrates World Diabetes Day

Shyam Sood

Rajouri, Nov 14: Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Department, Government Medical College & Associated Hospital (GMC&AH) Rajouri on Sunday celebrated World Diabetes Day under the supervision of Brij Mohan, Principal, and Dr.Mehmood Hussain Bajar, Medical Superintendent (MS).
World Diabetes Day is celebrated every year on November 14 to mark the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who discovered the insulin hormone along with Charles Herbert Best in 1922.
‘Access to Diabetes Care – If Not Now, When?’ is the theme for World Diabetes Day 2021.
This day came into existence in 1991 when the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and WHO decided to take up this diabetes awareness initiative as the number of people suffering from this chronic illness increased all over the world.
IDF is an umbrella organization with over 230 national diabetes associations spread in 170 countries and territories. Though the day was conceived in 1991, it was in 2006 that the World Diabetes Day assumed official status as the United Nations Day after the United Nations Resolution was passed.
Over 537 million people are suffering from diabetes all over the globe & to address the increasing health threat awareness is circulated by celebrating World Diabetes Day.
“The theme encourages people to be aware of the diabetes mellitus set of metabolic disorders so that they can benefit from the education on disease and treatment, dietary changes, and exercise, with the goal of keeping both short-term and long-term blood glucose levels within acceptable bounds,” said Dr. Mehmood.
The campaign is represented by a blue circle logo that was adopted in 2007 and is the global symbol for diabetes awareness, he added.
Dr. Varun Gupta, Physiotherapist Non-Communicable Disease(NCD) Department stressed the importance of lifestyle management, diet management, exercise, and regular walking to keep the blood sugar within normal limits and to prevent diabetic-related complications like cardiac ailments, chronic kidney diseases, blindness, and neuropathy. World Diabetes Day was also celebrated at CHC Kotranka under Kandi Health Block in the district under the supervision of Dr.Iqbal Malik, BMO.
Dr Iqbal Malik gave an informative lecture on the rise of lifestyle diseases. Dr Malik said that our changing lifestyle is one of the main reasons for diseases like diabetes.
He highlighted the importance of healthy eating and physical activity in preventing diabetes. A presentation was given by Dr. Malik for easy understanding of the participants present at the event.
It was also highlighted that Diabetes affects many organs of the body such as eyes, nerves, kidneys, and heart function. It is a silent killer and it adversely affects the quality of life. Mohd Ayoub Lone, Community Health Officer (CHO) said that earlier diabetes was rarely seen in our community due to the very active lifestyle of people, but nowadays due to changing eating habits as well as a sedentary lifestyle more and more cases of diabetes are being seen.