Extension of Diabetic Care (EDC)

A. Goals & Objectives

• The Goal of the Projects to extend diabetes health care service to rural areas by setting up Diabetes Care Centres through General Practioners at Thana level throughout Bangladesh.
• The objectives are to recruit 550 settled GPs from Thana level lat least one irom each Thana] tor Certificate Course on Diabetology with the aim oi enroling Accredited Physicians (AP).
• to make the chambers/clinic at the APs suitable tor diabetes care (by providing them glucometers. ophthalmoscopes. tuning forks and retrlgerators).
• to create an electronic network through mobfle phone to monitor and share data, to provide diabetes health education to the diabetics and their family members attending at APs chamber by the health educators from the nearest Aflifiated Associations.
• Overall aim is to increase diabetes care coverage from existing 25% to at least 50%.

B. Activities

1. As a part of manpower training, 25 doctors successfully completed Certificate Course on Diabetology in Batch- A, B, and C. Training 21 doctors in Batch-D is running.
2. All Affiliated Association of requested to nominate potential GPs for the course from their locality. A three member team has been formed to visit the chamber of GPs at Thana level.

C. Material Developed Through EDC

Course material for the Certificate Course on Diabetology by face to face teaching has been finalized by its faculty. The course delivery materials are prepared as follows:

1. Text (Printed book) same as the existing one for distance learning mood
2. Lecture material – Power Point Slide
3. Tutorial materials - Activities like Fill up the gaps, response to true/false statements, data interpretation and discussion as appropriate for individual lecture curriculum.
4. Practical/clinical class- case(s) presentation/ investigation(s)/procedure (s), assignment and discussion appropriate for individual lecture curriculum
5. 5. Theoretical and practical teaching on Telemedicine system in Diabetic care.

D. Achievement

So far successfully Two Accredited Physician Center has been established under this project. And Inaugurated Two more are on the pipeline. The following Accredited Physician Scheme Centre have been opened  till 19 July 2012.