Call to control diabetes spread through awareness.

LAHORE -- Postgraduate Medical Institute Principal Prof Dr Sardar Muhammad Alfareed Zafar and head of PINS Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood have called for controlling the rapidly growing diabetes through mass awareness campaigns, including seminars in educational institutions.

They said the media should also play a role to mobilise people to change their life style and convince them to eat less and walk more which could lead them towards a healthy environment.

They expressed these views while addressing the training workshop for doctors on diabetes held under the aegis of Lahore General Hospital and Sugar Clinic in which more than 125 doctors were given training on the complications and solutions for diabetic patients.

Prof of Medicine of Lahore General Hospital Dr Tahir Siddique, Prof of Surgery Prof Farooq Afzal, Prof of Eye Dr Mohammad Moeen...