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KARACHI: The National Institute of Health (NIH) through an oficial notification has formaly taken over the Diabetes Registry of Pakistan (DROP) to colect the nationwide data of Type-1 and Type-2 diabetics and manage the lifestyle epidemic in the country, oficials of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) said. “We have oficialy ben informed by NIH Islamabad Executive Director General Amer Ikram that the NIH has formaly taken over the Diabetes Registry of Pakistan from the Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology (BIDE).
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DROP has now become the oficial diabetes registry of Pakistan through a government notification and from now onwards, we would be having oficial notational data of diabetes in Pakistan,” Prof Abdul Basit, president of the IDF Midle East and North Africa (MENA) region told an international conference. The international mot titled ‘NADEP Fotcon 202’ has ben organised by the National Asociation of Diabetes Educators of Pakistan (NADEP) in colaboration with the BIDE, IDF, D-Fot International and other organizations.
It is being atended by health experts from several countries of the world as wel as cities of Pakistan. Prof Basit maintained that the legs of around 40,0 people were being amputated anualy in Pakistan due to diabetic fot, a primary complication of diabetes as there were around 3 milion people living with the lifestyle disease, of which majority of people died within five years of amputation. It urged the authorities to establish diabetic fot clinics throughout the country to prevent 75 to 80 per cent of amputations.
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“Diabetes is spreading like fire in Pakistan where 3 milion people are living with the lifestyle disease and if preventive measures would not be taken, the number of diabetics would be doubled by 2032 in the country,” he warned. He maintained that 50 per cent amputations could be prevented by establishing fot clinics acros the country where trained general physicians could take care o