With roaring prevalence of 7.3 – 9.1 % in urban area and 2.6% in rural area, Ahmedabad is truly Diabetes capital of India. It again is number in diabetes related complications because of poor lifestyle. Overall burden on healthcare system due to diabetes is tremendous and is of utmost healthcare concern in recent days.

A high-quality Diabetes care doctor should have experience of more than 15 years in the field with his degree of MD accredited from Government of India. Doctor should have database of managing all forms of Diabetes including Type 1, Type 2 and Gestational Diabetes. Patients’ testimonials can justify true expertise and excellence of doctor in disease management. Diabetes is managed by primary care providers, family physicians and alternative medicine doctors, but one with high quality knowledge with expertise in latest development should be the one selected by patient.

Science of diabetes treatment is dynamic with day-to-day advances in new direction. We now have medicines which target on reversing diabetes with altering basic pathophysiology of disease. With the advancement in newer medicines, there are very low chances of getting low blood sugar and diabetes related complications like diabetic neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy and gastropathy. Doctors and diabetes care providers should be constantly updated with latest knowledge on diabetes management by reviewing articles, web-based information and declaration from national and international conferences. Managing patient with recent updated knowledge helps patients in keeping HbA1c as low as possible with avoidance of hypoglycemia and preventing diabetes related complications at affordable cost.

Patient has to understand that diabetes management requires thorough discipline in aspects like sugar monitoring at home, medical nutrition therapy – diet management and regular exercise. They should undergo frequent check up of blood sugar along with Lipid Profile, Urine for microalbumin, Eye – Retina examination by ophthalmologist, foot examination for diabetic foot and Stress testing for cardiac wellbeing. We are able to achieve complete diabetes remission in more than 50 patients with umbrella approach by dietitian, physical educator, yoga, psychologist consultation for stress management and weight reduction. Every 1 mg reduction of blood glucose helps in preventing long term complications and helps us to save patients.

We are able to achieve HbA1c of less than 7 in more than 90% of patient who visit us regularly and follow diet and exercise regimen given by us. Consistent efforts considering cost of treatment have helped us to do so with very minimal cost even in those patients whose diabetes was previously grossly uncontrolled. Patients are coming to us from all part of Gujarat and we regularly see many overseas patients coming regularly once a year for diabetes management. They take benefits of our online consultation and update their blood sugar values in our online portal for our pursual. Approach with

keeping patient in center helps us to achieve excellence in diabetes management and our achieves are well appreciated by various media agencies.

Our full time qualified diabetologists are available from 10 am to 10 pm in Sangini Hospital which makes it easy for patient to receive optimum care at their comfortable timings. With location in heart of Ahmedabad – Satellite area makes it very convenient for the patient to get quality consultation. Optimum use of technology in getting appointment, receiving exact time of consultation and receiving data in soft and hard copies makes it advantages for patients and they can store data in paperless form. A  patient, who has come once for physical consultation can be managed subsequently by online consultation – that makes them easy to achieve excellent control of diabetes without visiting doctor or hospital.

A triad of well educated patient, dedicated doctor and support staff and optimum use of technology makes every goal of diabetes achievable. Patient should select doctor and hospital where doctors are centrally located and available in long hours, team using latest advances in healthcare systems, having empathetic and human approach to the patient and where team is offering umbrella of dietitian, physical educator and diabetologist. Newer approaches like continuous glucose monitor, insulin pump and team for diabetes reversal can be game changer in Diabetes management.