Diabetes. There is a good chance that most of us know someone who has this disease. It is everywhere – or so it seems to be.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today reported that in 2015 in India of people between the ages of 30-70 approximately 80,000 males and 50,000 females died due to complication of diabetes, whereas if we look at people above the age of 70, approximately 50,000 males and 45,000 females died of the disease. This was in 2015 alone – and things are getting worse.
In the last 16 years the incidence of diabetes in India has doubled! There were about 32 million diabetics in India in the year 2000 and that number has grown to well over 60 million diabetics in India as of 2013. That is a 100% growth in the last 13 years!
Why is this happening? Well, unfortunately the answer is progress. Progress? How in the world can progress be responsible for some many more diabetics in India? Well, again, the unfortunate answer is not just progress but financial progress.
You see, as we get more and more rick in India; as the number of Indians who live in hi-rise expensive buildings and have extra money to buy luxury things increases, so does the number of Indians who are able to snack and eat things which they would otherwise not eat if they did not have such an amount of discretionary money.
This is no different than what is happening in other countries such as America. In Paris a few days ago a Global Survey has now discovered that today one out of every 8 adults is obese. That’s right obese. Obesity is the brother of diabetes. The more people weigh, the greater the chances of becoming diabetic.
To combat this, technology is coming up with things such as continuous monitoring patches which tell the patient and the doctors what the person’s blood sugar is at all times. There are more and more sophisticated glucose meters every day. It is only a matter of time before someone asks one of our excellent programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com to build, design or program something for diabetics. When that happens, we want for our excellent, outstanding programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com to be ready. To know what diabetes is here in India and worldwide and to be prepared to write the best program or application for this disease – in order to again put the name of India on the world’s stage as one of the places on earth where the best minds are creating the best products to help the human race. I would not all be surprised if the next big breakthrough in creating a program or an App for diabetes care comes from India. Further, I would fully expect that that great development will come from one of our excellent programmers or web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com.
Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com