If you are diabetic, get registered free of cost with a Sewashram to get your medicine related needs fulfilled. Also, share your agonies and experiences with the likes to vent out negativity. A monthly get together with children, adults and expectant mothers who happen to face the same medical challenges gives a way out to the sufferers of this fast spreading disease. Many myths about the disease are broken in these monthly discussions and briefings.
Nikhil Agarwal (21), who has diabetes from childhood shared his experience with his peer group during the monthly support group meeting saying, “I never ate apple earlier on account of the fear of sugar in the fruit. After coming here I realised it was not the sugar that mattered but the proper combustion of sugar and its conversion to the desired form which is usable in our bodies.” Many such dietary regimens are shared in the meetings.
The sewashram is running special clinic for the diabetics for the past many years by a trained diabetic educator and a monastic doctor who takes care of the daily needs of the patients.
Speaking to The Pioneer, secretary of Ram Krishna Mission Sewashram Swami Nityashuddhananda said, “All the registered children, adults, and pregnant mothers with diabetes get free insulin dose and supplies.
The diabetics education sessions are conducted on one to one basis and also in groups. This is run under the academic guidance of Dr Santosh Gupta, a Pediatric Endocrinologist from Washington university school of medicine, St louise, USA.”
Deliberating on how the group sharing helps the patients, diabetes programme coordinator and the monk in-charge of emergency department, Swami Dayadipananda said, “This monthly support group plays an important role to boost their morale. They share their emotions with each other, thus such meetings act as cathartic. It empowers the diabetics with the right knowledge of diabetes,” said
Notably, the sewashram receives financial support from International Diabetes Federation (IDF-lFAC) based in Australia to meet the expenses towards insulin supplies.