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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
In an initiative to reduce mortality and ill-health among children with type one diabetes, the Delhi Diabetic Forum launched a programme, Free Insulin Project, to provide insulin to underprivileged diabetic children. An insulin vial cost Rs 150 in the market and lasts for about 20 days. Diabetes is chronic. Once a child starts on insulin, he or she has to take the drug every day of his life.
?We have spoken to the doctors in government hospitals. They will refer poor patients to us whom we will give free insulin dose throughout life,? said Dr Ashok Damir, vice president, DDF.
A special team of seven doctors from various hospitals and DDF will be responsible for ensuring implementation of the programme.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/238501/free-insulin-poor-children.html
?We have spoken to the doctors in government hospitals. They will refer poor patients to us whom we will give free insulin dose throughout life,? said Dr Ashok Damir, vice president, DDF.
A special team of seven doctors from various hospitals and DDF will be responsible for ensuring implementation of the programme.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/238501/free-insulin-poor-children.html