Refugee Project Launched
Even before the crisis in Ukraine there were record numbers of refugees around the world. The World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) has called for an holistic approach to meeting the health needs of displaced peoples. The WDF’s mission is to alleviate human suffering related to diabetes among those in greatest need. With record numbers of people […]
Sudan – Impending Health Disaster Predicted
Strike action by doctors, that would be unprecedented in many western health care systems, is being carried out in sheer frustration at medicine shortages, lack of funding, insecurity and what has been described as an “impending health disaster”? The number of COVID-19 cases combined with existing challenges on the Sudanese health care system has gone […]
News From Around the Globe Continued: A Month Without Insulin
The difficulties obtaining insulin, testing strips and medicines are not unique to the Sudanese hospital we reported about in our last issue. The stock of injections for diabetes patients has been exhausted in the Landikotal District Hospital in the Khyber tribal district of Pakistan. Hospital sources reported in the local press have claimed many people […]
Congo First
UK diagnostics innovator Glyconics has won an £85k UK government grant to implement low-cost diabetes screening in developing countries. The start-point is the Democratic Republic of the Congo which has the fifth highest incidence of the condition in Africa. The initial six-month programme deploys Glyconics’ pioneering handheld diabetes screening device backed by grant aid under […]