Diabetes Test Camp

While diabetes prevalence research in Nepal is sketchy, a study reported the prevalence of pre-diabetes to diabetes is as high as 19.5% to 9.5% of the 30 million population. World Health Organization has projected the diabetes prevalence to rise to 1,328,000 persons in 2030. Medical experts believe that Nepal is at high risk of diabetes and the surveys report an increase in risk factors for diabetes in Nepal such as tobacco use, alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet, high level of salt consumption and lack of physical activity.

Of the 507,000 cases found in Nepal, more than 50% of men and women with diabetes were not on medication and 89% of the diabetics were not aware of their disease and had never measured their blood glucose. These figures are alarming and give an indication of the poor access to care, utilization of health-care Diabetes is one of the major causes of premature deaths, kidney failure, blindness, foot ulcers and cardiovascular disease. Raised blood sugar due to uncontrolled diabetes leads to serious damage to many of the body’s systems over time. The global prevalence of diabetes in 2014 was estimated to be 9% among adults.

services and awareness in the country.

Early detection and proper management of diabetes can delay disease progression and death. While the known data show that the disease is more rampant in the urban districts, it is still the rural people who are much more at risk of serious disease progression to physical dysfunction and death due to lack of awareness and timely detection of diabetes symptoms. Thus, the voluntary travel program helps early detection of diabetes and disease awareness in the rural districts where people neither have access to good health services nor the income to pay for those diabetes treatment.