Treatment Boost For Young Diabetic Patients
Divisional Medical Officer Western based in Lautoka, Dr Susana Nakalevu, accepted the donation with heartfelt appreciation.
Saturday 27 April 2019 | 23:26
Treatment of young diabetic patients was boosted when CareSens strips and Lancets worth $2000 was donated to Western Health Services under Ministry of Health and Medical Services on Friday.
The donation from The Colour Explosion group includes 2500 packets of CareSens strips and 4000 CareSens Lancets to treat diabetic patients.
Divisional Medical Officer Western based in Lautoka, Dr Susana Nakalevu, accepted the donation with heartfelt appreciation.
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She said it was an important donation to boost their work and in management of more type one diabetic patients.
“These strips will be used to treat our young diabetic patients who need to be checked on their sugar level,” Dr Susana Nakalevu said.
“This will boost our work of managing more young diabetic patients, who are usually forgotten and left last because of the focus on diabetic type two patients.
"This donation is of course cost saving for us, especially knowing how expensive the strips cost."
Colour Explosion co-founder and leader, Paula Benn said their team was happy that the donation was worthy and useful.
"They might be expensive, but cost does not matter when the objective is to help.
“This year will be the fifth anniversary. Our team wants to help, educate and empower people in Fiji to live healthy lifestyle in combating NCDs.”
The group has also planned a daily fun walk starting 3pm.
People are invited to be part of a sunset walk so they can be back at Shirley Park before dark to round off with and a NCDs dance ses- sion.
Through this event, Colour Explosion hopes to inspire and motivate members of the community to take better care of their health through better dietary habits including regular daily exercises.
Participants are asked to don a white T-shirt for the proposed 5km walk and there will be special prizes at stake.
Colour Explosion was formed in 2014 by a group of Lautoka-based dynamic professionals and community workers who identified the need to educate empower and highlight Non Communicable Diseases, our Nation’s biggest killer.
