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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Average cost of type-1 diabetes management: 27k/year -Shailvee Sharda

Average cost of type-1 diabetes management: 27k/year -Shailvee Sharda

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published Published on Sep 8, 2016   modified Modified on Sep 8, 2016
-The Times of India

LUCKNOW: Seeing their child in tears each time an insulin pen pricks the belly isn't the only pain parents of a type-1 diabetic child have to go through.

The cost associated with management of the disease hurts equally, if not more. A middle-income family spends an estimated 18% of family income on the disease. The findings are from a study conducted by the department of endocrinology at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS). The study examined the direct cost associated with management of type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in patients attending the diabetes clinic at the institution which caters to a large part of North India and Nepal. T1DM mainly afflicts children.

After examining 88 patient families for a period of one year, the researchers found that families had to spend Rs 27,915 per annum on the management. The patients were aged 3-39 years.

The amount is considerable for patient families hailing from middle or lower socio-economic classes. The burden was heavier because 81% had no access to government subsidy or medical insurance. The largest expenditure was on home glucose monitoring (40%) and insulin (39.5%). Principal researcher Prof Eesh Bhatia said that cost coming in the way of treatment was a harsh reality doctors in endocrinology department face everyday.

"Complications arising out of re-use of syringes, skipping a dose of insulin or irregular blood glucose monitoring leading to hospitalisation are common. Everything comes down to cost and parents express helplessness," he said adding, "seeing the financial inadequacy is extremely depressing." The cost of treatment is a bigger issue if people have to depend on private sector for blood sugar monitoring strips, insulin and tests. The study found that buying strips for sugar level monitoring formed the largest chunk of expenditure. An SGPGI versus market comparison suggests that the cost of treatment in the private sector would be four times higher.

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The Times of India, 8 September, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Average-cost-of-type-1-diabetes-management-27k/year/articleshow/54155503.cms


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