A free diabetes camp is going to be set up at the Lahore General Hospital (LGH) to mark the World Diabetes Day on Monday (Today), wherein 1,000 sugar patients would be provided all kinds of necessary medical treatment free-of-cost.
Moreover, the medical experts will guide the patients as well as their attendants about the preventive measures they could adopt against diabetes. Furthermore, an awareness walk and a seminar will also be held in which doctors, nurses, student nurses, paramedical staff and prominent political and social figures will participate in order to create awareness about the disease.
Principal PGMI Prof. Tariq Salah-ud-Din, Ex Principal Kind Edward Medical College Prof. Mehmood Ali Malik, Prof. of Medicine Dr. Gias-un-Nabi Tayab, Diabetes Specialist Dr. Imran Hassan Khan, Dr. Marya Aslam and other senior doctors would deliver the lectures on diabetics.
Separate counters would be established for male and female patients at the sugar camp organised by medical unit one for the World Sugar Day.
Patients will not be charged any token fee; instead, those putting up stalls on the occasion would be given prizes by the pharmaceutical companies.
Doctors from the departments of Surgery, Urology, Medial, Gynaecology, Eye and Paediatrics would also be available at the camp to help the patients and to provide them with suitable consultancy.
Dr. Tariq said that sugar has become a fast spreading disease and its major causes are over eating, to avoid physical exercise and family background. He said that doctors should also aware the patients about the preventive measures, while giving them the treatment. He emphasised the young doctors to focus on knowledge and research in order to rid modern diseases of current age.