National diabetes programme

Area Partner Project responsible Duration Project budget WDF contribution Project number

India Diabetes Research Centre, Chennai, India Prof. A. Ramachandran July 2003 - March 2007 USD 1,414,557 USD 973,083 WDF03-052

Objective

The project aims to ensure that the Indian population gains access to effective and affordable diabetes care.

Expected impact

• 3000 doctors capable of delivering primary and secondary diabetes care
• 1000 community nurses able to raise awareness of diabetes in local communities
• 180 trained foot care specialists, nutritionists and diabetes self-care educators
• Diabetes care provided to 7.5 million people with diabetes a year
• 1 million people exposed to the cause per year through campaigns and events
• Reduction by 25% (minimum 19,000) in amputations due to diabetes among the 7.5 million people reached

Results at project completion March 2007

• The necessary course curriculum and training tools have been developed to train health care personnel in the public, NGO and private health care delivery system and trainers who can further train others to integrate diabetes care into the existing system. Global Guidelines for type 2 diabetes have also been distributed
• 3023 doctors were trained from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Orissa. Twice a month for three years training was given in 5-day workshops. Doctors from private as well as government hospitals were trained representing both rural and urban areas
• 1352 paramedical personnel/community nurses have been trained by participating in 3-day workshops
• 120 health educators and 60 dieticians have been trained in nutrition and dietetics and patient diabetes education during a three week in-house training in Chennai
• Dissemination of knowledge: The participants trained on diabetes care started various initiatives in their job settings and work stations. This included:

- Registration of diabetes societies and helping poor diabetes patients; conducting or facilitating training or continuing medical education to their colleagues and other paramedical staff

- Organising awareness training programmes among various target groups: Patients and their families, high risk groups, policy makers, programme managers and the general public

- Motivating colleagues and other categories of staff to attend the WDF training

- Improving the quality of care in their clinical setting; hospitals or private clinics

- Starting education of the public and patients on life style modification and its importance

• The doctors who were trained started establishing diabetes management and prevention centres. This has happened mostly in the primary health centres, railway hospitals and government district hospitals
• A 22-minute drama for public/patient education on diabetes was designed and produced. Available on CD in English and Tamil languages

Additional information on the project can be found here.

This page was last updated 10-12-2007 by sfh.wdf