Indian government said, “Diabetes is rapidly increasing in India with around seven crore cases registered among adults in 2015, whereas the prevalence of the disease increased by 80% among women between 1980 and 2014”. Now this statement shows how India is becoming a soft target for disease like diabetes to settle in so easily.
J P Nadda, Health Minister stated in Rajya Sabha that, “As per the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the estimated cases of diabetes in India in the age group of 20-70 years were 6.68 crore and 6.91 crore in 2014 and 2015 respectively,” which makes India “among the top three countries in the world with high diabetic population”.
Nadda said “China, which used to have second highest prevalence of diabetes, has overtaken India in the past few years” but this still doesn’t bring us out of diabetic danger. All we need to work for is to come out of the database which suggests that India with 69.1 million diabetic populations is the second most affected country.
According to Nadda, “the government is implementing National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) for interventions up to district level under the national health mission.” Along with this the health minister has talked about measures to increase awareness which can bring suitable changes to the diabetic prone lifestyle on Indians.
