September 22, 2018 Media Coverage
The Eyebetes Foundation, under the capable leadership of Dr Nishant Kumar, has been organising screening camps to raise awareness about the link between diabetes and blindness
There is overwhelming evidence that the burden of diabetes and hypertension is on the rise in India. In fact, the two chronic diseases, euphemistically called high sugar and high BP, coexist in as many as twenty per cent patients. Almost half of the world’s diabetics are Indians, with an estimated 72 million cases in the country, and this number is expected to increase to 134 million.
