Karachi: Diabetes has become common disease among people, it is impossible to get rid from this disease but it can be controlled and a patient of diabetes can spend normal life without complications.
These views were expressed by the Pakistan Endocrine Society (PES) General Secretary and AKUH Assistant Professor Dr Qamar Masood while addressing a press conference on ‘Protect our Future’ featuring diabetes prevention and precautions, which should implement by diabetes patients in their lives, held here at Karachi Press Club.
On the occasion, PES Executive Members Prof Zamman Khan, Dr Zaqir Alvi, Dr Khalid Imam and PVS Former President Dr Khurram Shahid were also present.
Addressing to the press conference, Dr Qamar Masood further said that diabetes disease depends on family history but now this scenario had also become common that diabetes hit kids before striking parents. “It is necessary for every person to go for check-up at least once in a year so that person can tackle disease from the beginning,” he added.
He further said that pre-diabetes was a stage before diabetes, in which person could not be called normal or diabetes patient but from this stage he/she could deal and control with disease easily. Masood further expressed that multiple physical activities such as sports, exercise, walk and others could be every helpful in diabetes.
Talking about causes in raising diabetes patients, Masood said that the real cause behind the number of increase in diabetes patients was new era life style, where people prefer vehicle rather than walk.
Masood said, “It is necessary for a diabetes patient to manage blood pressure below from 80-130, AIC should be maintained at 7% and cholesterol should not be more than 100.” He further said that every person should also go for medical test of eyes, feet, lungs and liver once in a year.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Khurram Shahid said, “Diabetes is most expensive disease, as every year almost 71 billion rupees spend on it and it is miss conception among people that patient of diabetes can not enjoy taste of delicious foods item.” They could eat every kind of food in limit but without compromising on food quality, he said added, “It is also a false conception among general public that insulin was a harmful medicine.” Shahid said that insulin could be given to patient from the beginning of disease and there was nothing risky in it. People also believe that sugar medicine also affect lungs and lever, which was also another miss understandings as this was not truth, he said.
Shahid further said that diabetes was a disease, which could not be eliminated from the patient body but control over it was very easy.
He emphasized, “The need of the hour is to eliminate fear of diabetes from people as diabetes patient can also live like a normal person.”
Prof Zamman Sheikh said that debates could be controlled by medicine and exercise, however, patient could also take insulin as there was no harm in it. He added: “It is a disease which can cause of blindness, failure of lungs, feet disability, hearts and brain disease.”
He said that proper and timely treatment of diabetes was very necessary. Talking about IDF report, Sheikh said that in a recent IDF report, Pakistan expenditure on one diabetes patient was 24$, which was very less as compare to other countries. He said that in importing stick of blood glucose test government takes three kind of tax, which also increased the price of stick.
He urged government to come forward in order to control disease. He further said that in Pakistan present figure of diabetes patients was 7.01 million, which indicates that no of patients could be increased to 11.04 million in 2030.
Dr Zakir Alvi and Dr Khalid Imam also addressed on the occasion & appreciated role of pharmevo for awareness & education about diseases.
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