It was not just a pleasure excursion for the little children suffering from diabetes but an opportunity to learn how to control diabetes and maintain health to live like a non-diabetic person.
Young diabetics, aged between four and eighteen years, gathered at Proshika guesthouse in Manikganj on Sunday for a two-day camp. The camp aimed at teaching these children how to live well with just discipline, proper diet and taking prescribed medication on time.
Around 94 children, patients at Birdem, along with their parents joined the camp organised by Birdem under its “Changing Diabetes in Children (CDIC)” programme in assistance with Novo Nordisk, a pharmaceutical company, and World Diabetes Foundation.
“Children are not usually conscious about their health. That is why we try to discipline them through games and amusements at the annual camps,” said Dr Shakhawat Hossain, health educator of Birdem.
“It is a different day for us. Thanks to Birdem and Novo Nordisk for teaching us new things and techniques to maintain good health,” said Rima and Shima, twin eleven-year old sisters, suffering from diabetes for the last five years.
Like the two, Shumi Akhter, Brishti Rani Das, Baby Tasnim and others opined that Birdem and Novo Nordisk gave them a new life by providing insulin
