Case Study

5. Accura Diabetes Care - Dr Shailendra Kumar Kale, Dr Sushil Kumar Pare

Diabetes is fast gaining the status of a potential epidemic in India, with more than 62 million diabetic individuals currently diagnosed with the disease. In 2000, India (31.7 million) topped the world with the highest number of people with diabetes mellitus followed by China (20.8 million) with the United States (17.7 million) in second and third place respectively. According to Wild et al., the prevalence of diabetes is predicted to double globally from 171 million in 2000 to 366 million in 2030, (Sarah, Gojka, Anders, & Richard, 2004) with a maximum increase in India. It is predicted that by 2030 diabetes mellitus may afflict up to 79.4 million individuals in India.

“The diabetes capital of the world with as many as 60 million people who have type-2 diabetes, India has the challenge to face. However, medical experts feel that timely detection and right management can go a long way in helping patients lead a healthy life. Diabetes might be one of the most talked-about diseases across the world and especially in India, but awareness about the same can well be estimated by the fact that India today has more people with type-2 diabetes (more than 50 million) than any other nation. (Malik, 2016)”.

With the country having the highest number of diabetic patients in the world, the sugar disease is posing an enormous health problem to our country today. Often known as the diabetes capital of the world, India has been witnessing an alarming rise in the incidence of diabetes according to the International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) fact sheet on diabetes, an estimated 3.4 million deaths are caused due to high blood sugar.

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