Apollo Sugar flags off half a million free screenings for a year
Apollo Sugar flags off half a million free screenings for a year this
World Diabetes Day
-Launches a new property- Together Let’s Beat Diabetes, with an aim to
make diabetes-disease free
Apollo
Sugar- an innovative, single-specialty diabetes and
endocrine healthcare provider, has gone a step ahead this World Diabetes Day
and launched a novel property wholly dedicated towards Diabetes Management.
·
WHO
estimates that diabetes, heart disease and stroke together will cost about $
333.6 billion over the next 10 years in India alone
·
20% of the
world’s diabetics are Indians
·
Diabetes is
the leading cause for kidney failure, cardiovascular disease and blindness
·
Almost half
of the diabetics in India are yet to be diagnosed
·
Of more
than half of the people diagnosed, only some of them adhere to monitoring and
treatment on a continuous basis
Keeping this in
light of the above startling situation, Apollo Sugar endeavours to connect with
people and beat diabetes together through a series of initiatives that emphasizes
on the importance of early detection and provides insights on diabetes
management through a disciplined approach involving ‘clinical care’ and
lifestyle management. Apollo Sugar offers a range of value added services that
involve a continuous care model to ensure diabetics live life disease-free. With
an aim of undertaking half a million screenings in a span of one year Apollo
Sugar has introduced mobile screening vans across several cities to bring
health services closer home. The cities that can spot the mobile screening vans
are Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi.
Apollo Sugar
also organized a walkathon
across cities today to spread awareness on early detection and importance
of screening related to the disease with bands, caps and slogan boards carrying impactful messages and
helpful tips on making diabetes disease free.
Dr Prathap Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group said,
“Diabetes education is the cornerstone of diabetes
management; as diabetes requires day-to-day knowledge of nutrition, exercise,
monitoring, and medication. People with diabetes have a higher-than-average
risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Therefore, it is important to
understand the importance of diabetes management. Being at the forefront of
diabetes management in India, Apollo Sugar feels a
strong sense of responsibility to align its expansion plans with the needs of
the country. Apollo Sugar has introduced a property that is solely
dedicated towards management of diabetes. This initiative allows one to
incorporate better education into one’s life and make the necessary changes to
improve one’s lifestyle.”
Commenting on the initiative, Sangita Reddy, Chairperson, Apollo Sugar
and Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals said “With the increasing
burden of diabetes on our society, we need to act quickly. Apollo Sugar has
therefore launched a new property that offers its patrons with advanced care
and counseling for diabetes. Apollo Sugar with its launch of “Together Let’s Beat
Diabetes” is leading the fight to make diabetes- disease free. This initiative
primarily aims to prevent, cure and manage diabetes; deliver services and reach
out to maximum number of communities through its mobile vans and provides
objective and credible information.
Speaking on the occasion, Gagan Bhalla, Chief Executive Officer of Apollo Sugar said,“Apollo
Sugar consistently
endeavors to provide superior quality health care services to address the
day-to-day health care needs of the family. Today more than 300 million people
live with diabetes and no country – rich or poor – is immune from this disease.
Through this initiative, we would want to ensure that people lead a healthy
lifestyle in order to avoid diabetes- one of the most common lifestyle disease.
Our mission has been to prevent and manage diabetes and to improve the lives of
all people affected by diabetes.”
This initiative by Apollo Sugar, delivers on its promise to
create newer and faster ways to deliver high quality diabetes
healthcare, through enhanced service delivery models, which will
benefit the entire health eco-system.
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