DFI

Training Programs

Training Programmes

Ongoing Training Program:

Trained 50 health volunteers on Diabetes and early identification and management of diabetes related complications, under diabetes complication projects.

Nutrition Education Programme-for professionals in the field of dietary and diabetes education

Health Workers Training under various projects:

  • Diabetes Prevention education in the community’- Trained about 450 health educators in the community under Diabetes care at door steps project
  • ‘Care and management of Gestational diabetes’- Trained about 750 ASHA and Anganwadi workers in the community under  Women centred diabetes , obesity and gestational diabetes project
  • 1500 Teachers trained in prevention of diabetes and healthy eating: MARG AND DISHA
  • 1500 Local medical Practitioners rained in the community for diabetes prevention and referrals.

Training

We have organised health workers training on diabetes and management where detailed knowledge about diabetes its prevention, management and how life style and diet modification can control the blood sugar level

Time to time we organise diabetes training for Registered medical practitioners on diabetes signs and symptoms and when to refer to hospital for better management.

 

Programs

 

Community Health Interventions and Education: 

 

Health Initiatives for Economically Disadvantaged Population Living in Urban Slums for Non-communicable Diseases: 

Team of DFI, for the first time, highlighted 

·      imbalanced diets and 

·      high cardiovascular risk 

in slum dwellers and advised preventive measures.

 

 

Largest Campaign Against Childhood Obesity in South Asia: 

 

The community health initiatives undertaken by DFI involve the activities of education of schoolchildren, teachers and parents regarding diabetes and obesity. 

Three large-scale multi-centric intensive health education programs 

·       MARG’, 

The MARG program (funded by World Diabetes Foundation, Denmark) is the first large scale community intervention project in South Asia which focuses 100% on primary prevention of not only diabetes, but also on non-communicable diseases in general.
 (
http://www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org/composite-1279.htm)

 

·       CHETNA’, 

Diabetes Foundation (India) and Rotary Club of Delhi South-East, through the Rotary South-East Charitable Foundation have initiated  CHETNA– “Childrens’ Health Education Through Nutrition and Health Awareness”, a program for the prevention of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, in order to inculcate healthy lifestyle and nutrition habits in school children, the first such program of its kind in India. This program aims to impart health education on the above issues through lectures, posters, group discussions with children, parents and teachers, and by conducting health camps. Our main aim is that each child should be made aware of a healthy lifestyle so that he/she does not suffer from obesity related disorders like diabetes and heart diseases later in life.

 

A Major Health Education Program Focusing on Women’s Health and Nutrition:  

 

With the help of a grant from the Department of Science and Technology, this project has been initiated in 8 cities in India. In this project, women in the age more than 30 years are targeted for proper nutrition and lifestyle advice and early detection of various diseases such as diabetes, obesity, heart problems and cancer. This is the first nutritional education program in India focusing on middle aged and elderly women.

 

Mass awareness camps towards early detection and proper treatment of diabetes among general public as well as among the medical and para-medical fraternity has been initiated. Several diabetes health camps have been organized for poor people at Delhi, UP and Haryana and given medical counseling, medicines and insulin free of charge. The aim of these interventions is to spread awareness about high-risk early screening for diabetes.