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Diabetes centre to expand services
DUBAI - The Dubai Diabetes Centre will expand its premises and services to provide diabetic children under the age of 18 with comprehensive diabetes care and management.
The plans were announced at the World Diabetes Congress on Monday. The centre will shift to a new location in order to double its capacity to treat patients and introduce paediatric endocrinologist.
Qadhi Saeed Al Murooshid, Director-General of the Dubai Health Authority said, “The new centre will increase the clinic’s capacity by 50 per cent and the centre is more than two times the size of the existing one which is located in the Al Wasl Hospital premises.”
“The expansion of this centre is significant in terms of providing specialised care for a larger number of diabetic patients in the Emirate and this is of vital importance, especially in this region,” said Professor Jean Claude Mbanya, President of the IDF. According to the head of the centre Dr M Hamed Farooqi, majority of the complications caused by diabetes are related to blood vessels.
“One out of every four people screened at the centre was found to have had diabetes that had caused damage to the eyes while the patient was not aware,” he explained. The centre will also increase facili
ties for retinal imaging and podiatry facility, both of which are critical for early diagnosis of complications in diabetics, said Dr Farooqi.
He added that the centre will have an in-house pharmacy, a laboratory to conduct tests as well as a gym. “The aim of providing a gym within the premises of the centre is to have exercise facilities under medical supervision.”
Previously named Joslin Diabetes Centre, the centre was rebranded as Dubai Diabetes Centre in 2010. Since its launch in April 2009, to date, the centre has seen 13,440 new cases and 32,271 total cases.
Eye screening
The centre will expand its eye screening facilities after routine eye checks found that at least 25 per cent of patients had undiagnosed diabetic retinopathy which could be a cause of blindness.
“One out of every four patients do not know that diabetes is affecting their eyes,” said Dr Farooqi. Of the 1,335 screened, 337 were at risk of retinal damage.
“This data clearly indicates the need for such screening at a much larger level particularly in those areas where the prevalence of diabetes is very high to prevent visual complication of diabetes including blindness,” according to a poster presentation at the WDC on the study done by the centre between January 2010 and March 2011.
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