India has been battling diabetes, particularly its urbane city population that is saddled with desk jobs and limited physical exercise. Despite several healthcare and awareness campaigns, the menace of diabetes has been plaguing the metropolitan centres of the country, thanks to the sedentary lifestyle that most of the middle-class professionals are forced to lead. At present, diabetes has become a gargantuan problem, with over 67 million confirmed patients in country, which is slated to become the nation with the largest diabetic population in the world by 2030. Naturally, the problem of diabetes does not end with the risk of a high blood sugar, but causes several affiliated complications such as increased cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, retinopathy, neuropathy, weight gain (or loss), gestational blood sugar hike, foot ulcers, escalated vulnerability to a number of other diseases as well as diminished bodily immunity. Diabetes takes a huge toll on the heart, the risk of myocardial infarction, of heart attack, tends to increase almost three-fold in diabetic patients, thereby causing an enormous strain on the physical and mental well-being of not just the patients but their near and dear ones as well.
In this context, the discovery of insulin as a cure for diabetes by a group of Indian scientists comes as a whiff of fresh air and relief to the medical community and healthcare sector. This insulin pill is almost like a holy grail in diabetes research, which the scientists have trying to lay their hands on since the beginning of proper diabetes research in the 1930s. Now that the life-saving medicine has been packaged into an orally consumable pill, not only does this bring down the cost of manufacturing the cure, previously the painful intravenous shots, but also saves millions the troubles of injecting themselves daily with this costly medicine to a chronic physiological malady. The metamorphosis of the medicine from an unfriendly shot to the children-friendly pill not only does go many miles in revving up the diabetes awareness issue, but also makes it more easily deliverable to the blood enzymes, thereby significantly improving its efficiency.
In this context, the discovery of insulin as a cure for diabetes by a group of Indian scientists comes as a whiff of fresh air and relief to the medical community and healthcare sector. This insulin pill is almost like a holy grail in diabetes research, which the scientists have trying to lay their hands on since the beginning of proper diabetes research in the 1930s. Now that the life-saving medicine has been packaged into an orally consumable pill, not only does this bring down the cost of manufacturing the cure, previously the painful intravenous shots, but also saves millions the troubles of injecting themselves daily with this costly medicine to a chronic physiological malady. The metamorphosis of the medicine from an unfriendly shot to the children-friendly pill not only does go many miles in revving up the diabetes awareness issue, but also makes it more easily deliverable to the blood enzymes, thereby significantly improving its efficiency.