Dr. Singh said that awareness programs for children ought to be innovative, child-friendly and capable of capturing the interest of the young and adolescent minds.
Even as insulin injection is the only viable option available for survival of such children today, he hoped that very soon there would be a viable oral insulin option also available with us.
The Minister of State, who inaugurated Afro-Asian conclave on diabetic children here today, in his inaugural address said, “In our preoccupation with rapidly spreading epidemic of adult Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus, there is sometimes a tendency to ignore the fact that there are over 75000 children with Type-1 Juvenile Diabetes in India who require lifelong insulin for survival.”