There are plenty of existing myths which concerns diabetes, encouraging wrong food choices or needless anxiety. “Most people fall prey to the existing myths and more strongly after discussion with their peers and friends who usually provide half and hearsay information,” explains Dr. Paras Agarwal, Founder & Chief Diabetologist, The Diabetes & Wellness Clinic (DWC). But diabetes consultation helps eliminate such concerns and he is proving it through his bootstrapped firm and his team of dietitians, diabetes educator and his gynecologist wife – a visiting consultant.

Considering the progressive nature of diabetes, it requires corrective measures to check any resulting complications that can manifest in different forms in different individuals. To keep the complications at bay,it requires proper pre diagnostic modalities, healthy diet plans, medication advices, disease education and awareness. To cater all the needs to prevent the endemic, Dr. Paras started a comprehensive care unit, DWC in 2015 in Gurgaon, after spending six long years as an attending diabetology consultant.

C.A.R.E Model for Diabetes & Wellness
Diabetes management is not an easy task to meet. Despite the available treatment and advice, many quit path of wellness due to reasons like lack of motivation, economic crunch or proper assessment. Thus DWC proffers a C.A.R.E model (Comprehensive, Affordable, Rational and Empathetic) of approach for the visiting patients. To provide a complete diagnostic care, DWS has a well equipped facility loaded with equipment like a vibration preceptor (biophysiometer), glucometer and standard testing for blood pressure. The most promising intervention is the point of care testing machine for glycosylatesd heamoglobin, which takes just five minutes to confirm how well a person is controlling diabetes over time.

Diabetic patients often find it difficult to manage their health when traveling, while proper medical assistance is a strict necessity to avoid any complications on the go. Thus, for any emergency consultation, DWC has cloud patient facility (Medical E-Consultation) for queries. The patient can contact the specialist via emails, where it provides a clear instruction of the medication timings and valuable suggestions to manage the condition including the insulin intake process.

The facility ensures a well-spaced waiting area, a reception facility and appointed coordinators as an empathic part of its offering. After fixing the appointment, these coordinators check their vital parameters, blood pressure, height and weight before they proceed for consultation. It also has a robust management facility where patient records are scanned and systematically maintained in their database as a triple copy. All these services are offered as unique packages to avail good diabetic care throughout the year.

DWC proffers a C.A.R.E model (Comprehensive, Affordable, Rational and Empathetic) of approach for the visiting patients

Future Roadmap to Treat Diabetes
The primary step towards treating chronic diabetes is to eliminate the complications, which require better technology for pre diagnosis. Diabetic Retinopathy is the most dreaded outcome; if not detected, pose a 95 percent risk of blindness. DWC is all geared up to include a fundus camera for retinopathy screening and a vehicle index. On the other hand, having several outpatients, the clinic is upgrading its diagnostic tests with novel technologies that can overcome the manual delay for a faster turnover time.

Diabetes patients require special care like insulin counselling and basic techniques to take the medication in the right way and right time without discontinuing it. Dr. Praras envisages in adding diabetes educator training programs to groom better educators than a routine dietitians with a better understanding of the disease. He concludes, “If I could tackle 10-20 percent patients with a better awareness about diabetes from the starting, it would be a barely good achievement for us”.