The most significant clinical development during the years 2001–2002 was the substantial expansion and diversification of services in the field of Diabetology. Diabetes mellitus affects approximately 11% of the urban population in South India. In response to this growing burden, the Department initiated an Integrated Diabetes Outpatient Clinic, conducted twice weekly.
This unique clinic adopts a holistic approach to diabetes management and brings together a multidisciplinary team comprising endocrinologists, diabetes educators, dietitians, and physiotherapists. Comprehensive care is provided with emphasis on diet, exercise, lifestyle modification, and pharmacological therapy. In addition, specialized foot care services are offered in collaboration with general surgeons and orthopaedic specialists.
The integrated clinic model has also been extended to the community through outreach camps conducted in and around the rural and semi-urban regions of Vellore. The department is supported by a dedicated team of fourteen full-time diabetes educators, whose sustained efforts have been instrumental in strengthening the Diabetology infrastructure and in imparting in-depth education to patients regarding effective inpatient and outpatient diabetes management.
Other distinctive features of diabetes care include structured diabetes education programs, glucometer rental services and home glucose monitoring support, insulin dose titration, continuous glucose monitoring systems, and insulin pump therapy.
Diabetes Clinic
Outpatient Clinic : WED & SAT
8:00am to 12:30pm
The most significant clinical development in the year 2001-2002 is the marked expansion and diversification in the area of Diabetology. Diabetes Mellitus affects about 11% of the South Indian Urban Population. Bearing this is mind, the Department has initiated an Integrated Diabetes Outpatient Clinic on a twice-weekly basis. This is a unique Diabetes Clinic, which includes the Endocrinologists, Diabetes Educators, Dieticians and Physiotherapists, who emphasize the holistic concepts in management of diabetes mellitus, inclusive of diet, exercise, lifestyle modification, and medications. In addition foot care is provided in liaise with a general surgeon and orthopedician.
The concept of the integrated clinic is extended in the form of integrated outreach camps, in and around the hinterland of Vellore. The department has fourteen full time diabetes educators who have done yeoman service in developing the Diabetology infrastructure and conveying in depth the changes required in successful management of inpatient and outpatient handling of diabetes to the patients. Other unique features of diabetes management include diabetes education, glucometer rentals and home monitoring, Insulin dose titration, continuous glucose monitoring system and Insulin Pump therapy.
