The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) has been holding the Certificate Course in Evidence-Based Diabetes Management (CCEBDM), a course to train general practitioners about various aspects of diabetes and update their skills in management, since 2010.
More than 10,000 doctors have been trained across India and this year, the sixth cycle of CCEBDM has been launched at 70 centres in India. Among four centres at Odisha, Bramhapur is the only centre in south Odisha, where consultant endocrinologist Dr Sunil Kumar Kota is designated as the regional faculty.
The first session was held at the Roland Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (RIPS), Ambapua here on Sunday where Brahmapur MP Chandra Sekhar Sahu, former MKCG Medical College Hospital Surgery Head Prof NC Padhi and PHFI national programme coordinator Dr Santosh Kumar attended as guests.
Dr Sahu highlighted the alarming situation of increasing prevalence of diabetes and congratulated Dr Kota for taking up such a nice initiative to train primary care physicians about diabetes. He urged the trainee doctors to dispel the wrong notions and myths about this disorder that is commonly prevalent in the society.
Under Dr Kota, 25 doctors from different districts of South Odisha would be trained over one year by means of 12 monthly classes. At the end, the doctors qualifying an exit examination would be provided with a certificate by the PHFI.