The Diabetes and Endocare Clinic here organised a day long scientific symposium on management options for diabetes. Doctors from south Odisha participated in large numbers.
Prof Dr R K Das, former Head, Dept of General Medicine, MKCG Medical College, was the chief guest with Prof Dr PC Sahu, former Head, Dept of General Medicine, MKCG Medical College; Prof Dr RJ Dash, former Head, Dept of Endocrinology, PGIMER, Chandigarh; Prof Dr l K Meher, Dean cum Principal, Balangir Medical College; Dr Alok Kanungo, Director, KIDS, Bhubaneswar and Prof Dr Subash Ch Mahapatra, Head, Department of General Medicine, MIMS, Vizianagaram as the guests of honour for the inaugural session. Dr Sunil Kota presided.
Prof Dr RK Das highlighted the rising prevalence of diabetes and called for enhancing the skills of practitioners to deal with these problems. Prof PC Sahu advised the audience to be watchful of diabetes by diagnosing them early followed by timely initiation of treatment.
Prof Dr R J Dash, Prof Dr l K Meher and others opined that these scientific symposia would help updating the knowledge of treating physicians on various modalities of diabetes management including the basic science, recent drugs and upcoming modalities. There were 20 different topics on both oral and injectable forms of therapies for diabetes management divided over 5 sessions. These were delivered by eminent endocrinologist and diabetologist from Brahmapur, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
In total around 150 doctors from Ganjam, Gajapati, Kandhamal, Rayagada, Koraput, Nabarangpur attended the workshop.
Additionally Dr Sunil Kota revealed his plans of undertaking blood sugar testing for officials and general public from different sectors to detect the undiagnosed cases. Prof Dr PC Sahu lauded the efforts by Dr Kota to educate both doctors and general public.