A new website designed to provide information about diabetes and tips on preventing it has been launched for the people of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India .
The site (stopdiabetesindia.org) has been created by Stop Diabetes, a city-based NGO (non-governmental organization, which also promised to provide training to 1,200 community physicians and 2,000 paramedic staff for early detection and proper management of the metabolic disease .
Mr S J Mukhopadhaya, chief justice of Gujarat high court, unveiled the site at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) last week.
Dr Mayur Patel, the project's adviser stated that the project was set up last year on World Diabetes Day (November 14).
He added that the portal will not only work as a resource on diabetes with regular updates on research, but will also have an interactive segment where specialists will offer up assistance to sufferers as well as visitants.
"Gujarat has the maximum number of people with diabetes in the country due to their eating habits," Dr Patel commented. "Now, it is even diagnosed among those in 40s and worst, even among school-going children."
He added: "India is the diabetes capital of the world with 33 million patients having been recorded in 2003. If proper preventive steps are not taken, the national figure could escalate to 80.9 million by 2030."
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