News from Associate Members of PDGN – national diabetes associations and other not-for-profits
BDA Covid Action
To overcome Covid restrictions, the Bermuda Diabetic Association has been providing on-line education updates, and innovative programmes for those with diabetes. The pandemic has revealed that more people are without employment and health insurance and requiring free diabetes medicine and medicines to be delivered to their homes. Thanks to generous donors they have been able to continue a free medicine programme throughout the pandemic.
During a temporary lifting of COVID restrictions the association held a weekend series of workshops for young people with type 1 diabetes and their parents, and to commemorate the centenary of the discovery of insulin, an open day.
Foot Pilot
In a partnership between the Bermuda Diabetes Association, Bermuda Limb Care Ltd and a local insurance company are collaborating in a pilot project designed to assist in the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation for those living with diabetic foot disease.
US$28,000 has been committed to fund a pilot project designed to assist in the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation for those living with diabetic foot disease. BDA Chair, Debbie Jones, has thanked PDGN for their work: “As ever we are grateful to the Parliamentary Diabetes Global Network for the tremendous job they are doing to raise the voices of those with or affected by diabetes around the world”.