The 44th Annual Conference of International Society for Paediatric & Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD-2018) will be held at HICC in city from October 11 to 14.

One thousand Childhood and Adolescent Diabetes experts comprised of Endocrinologists, Diabetologists, Diabetes Educators, Dieticians, Psychologists from 59 countries (India, USA, UK, Iran, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Bangladesh, Sweden, Egypt and others)will take part in the meet.

The theme of the meet is “Reaching the Unreached”, said the Office Bearers and Organising Committee members of ISPAD Prof. Joseph Wolfsdorf ( President ), Fr. Kim C Donaghue ( Incoming World President ), Dr. Anju Virmani and Dr. BanshiSaboo (Conference Presidents) in a press conference on October 10.

It is the biggest ever conference of Childhood and Adolescent Diabetes experts from all over the world to be held in India, they informed that the four day global meet brings together doctors, nurses, dieticians, psychologists, scientists and other professionals from all corners of the world to explore new developments in basic and clinical research and exchange ideas on how to implement them in the real world and how to improve the treatment of children afflicted by diabetes, and help their families, throughout the world.

They said prevalence of Type 1 Diabetes in India is the second largest in the world with 1.28 lakh (as against 7.3 crore adult diabetes) after USA with 2 lakh. Pediatric Diabetese are most neglected lot in the country, the experts said that most of the government officials do have any understanding about this issue. Both Dr. Anju and Dr Banshi wanted Union Government to offer subsidies for Insulin as well as Blood Sugar Tests.