Today in Ahmedabad, India 6 November 2009, I read the newspaper Times of India talking about the killer desiease diabetes in India and particularly in Gujrat. Its alarming. You can read more at http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOINEW/navigator.asp?Daily=TOIA&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&AW=1257474777500
Some initail lines are given below:
Ahmedabad: City-based diabetologist Dr Mayur Patel has come out with a unique research-based analysis on diabetes, the silent killer which threatens to have a whopping 8.5 crore Indians in its grip by year 2030. Such is the silence of this disease that it is much after the disease has taken firm root that it is detected.
His path-breaking doctoral thesis on ‘Diabetes Mellitus ....."
Now my point is what packaging can do this? While medical professionals, pharmaceutical experts will be working to solve this problem, I think we packaging technologists can help to manage the disease and learn to live with it. This can be done to the great extent by creating cost effective, platic moulded, easy to carry pens and we can use our knowledge. We at www.packagingconnections.com are working very closely with Haselmeier in Germany to come out with some solutions. Additionally we are also working with Schreiner MediPharm in Germany to offer special functional labels so that proper information is available to patients in time and medical errors could be further reduced. If you have any ideas or requirements then please feel free to post your thoughts,
Have a great day, Sandeep Goyal
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