Philippine Center for Diabetes Education Foundation - Manila

The creation of a Diabetes Clinic is the answer to the growing needs of educating a diabetic client.Such a clinic would offer patients its facilities to educate him on what diabetes is, its various forms of management, the use of the food exchange list, the action of both oral and parenteral hypoglycemic agent, the correct way of administering insulin, the various monitoring devices both for determining urine and blood glucose, the proper way to care for himself on sick days, and lastly, the correct way to care for his feet, skin and teeth.The clinic will also offer its facilities for in-patients and out-patients, regardless of who the doctor is or which hospital one goes to, for individual or group instruction, for the totality of its course or just a part of it.At the end of a  

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counseling program for diabetes, clinic educators will evaluate the patient and have the assessment done by the medical staff. Lectures are followed by good interaction with patients, and a question-answer session. Typically it may be conducted for two days with two hours per session.