National Diabetes Control Programme

The National Diabetes Control Programme was included in the 7th Five Year Plan as one of the central health sector programmes and was allocated a sum of Rs. 25 lakh to initiate District Diabetes Control Programmes. The programme as developed in Tamil Nadu and Jammu and Kashmir, has provided a model for integration of diabetes care and control in the primary health care programme. 

Objectives : The objectives of the programme are : 

1. Identification of high risk subjects at early stages and imparting appropriate health education with focus on primary prevention of diabetes. 
2. Early diagnosis of the disease and institution of appropriate management so as to reduce morbidity and mortality  (secondary prevention) with emphasis on vulnerable groups e.g. gestational diabetes; (diabetes during pregnancy) 
3. Prevention, arrest or slowing of acute metabolic as well as chronic cardio-vascular-renal complications of the disease. 
4. Provision of equal opportunities to ensure scholastic achievements as well as physical attainment and thus ensuring social and emotional adaptation leading to an improved quality of life, and 
5. Identification of those with partial or total physical handicaps owing to disease to ensure their rehabilitation with emphasis on optimal organ or body function.