PUDUCHERRY: As part of the management of diabetes, a Diabetology Out Patient Department (OPD) and a 10-bedded ward at the Indira Gandhi Government General Hospital and Post Graduate Institute (IGGGH&PGI) were inaugurated by Chief minister N Rangasamy on Thursday.The idea is to have a centralised focus on diabetic patients who require tertiary care and treatment. Inadequately treated diabetes leads to chronic complications like blindness, kidney failure and neuropathy. Neuropathy leads to gangrene and amputation of lower limbs. Diabetes also has a very high incidence of high cholesterol, high blood pressure leading to heart attacks and strokes. Since diabetes is a life long illness it requires comprehensive care by a dedicated diabetic clinic where the patient will get all the advice needed at the one-stop clinic.Those with complications would be referred to other departments like ophthalmology, medicine, surgery, nephrology based on the nature of complications for specific treatments, said Dr K V Raman, Director, Department of Health and Family Welfare.Out of around 9000 OPD patients, every week, around 300 diabetic patients from Puducherry receive treatment in the IGGGH&PGI. Moreover 33,000 diabetic patients are registered with Primary Health Centres (PHC) s and the two Community Health Centres (CHCs) in the Union Territory, said Dr Raman. The cases that require tertiary care are referred to IGGGH&PGI.The detection and treatment of diabetes has already started from the grass root level at the level of PHCs where all medicines are also provided.
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