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Biocon has scaled up its ‘Winning with Diabetes’ program through a nationwide disease awareness campaign to observe World Diabetes Day on November 14.
With this initiative, the company aims to reach out to over 100,000 diabetes patients and engage with more than 550 healthcare professionals in over 100 cities across the country, the company said in a statement. Multiple diabetes detection camps, patient education programmes and walkathons are being held to create awareness about diabetes, its prevention and management, the statement added.
Partha Roy Chowdhury, Head-Metabolics Division, Biocon said: "Our endeavour is to empower many more ‘people with diabetes’ with the ability to ‘win with diabetes’ through lifestyle modification, nutrition management and regular exercise.”
The education programmes have been designed to educate the common man about the causes, effects, diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, which affects over 65 million people in India currently.
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