Our goal is to encourage patients to receive early specialty care and education – getting them on the right track with their diabetes management before returning them to their primary care physicians for ongoing treatment.

Since diabetes affects the nerves and blood vessels of the foot more commonly leading to foot ulcers and subsequently to loss of the limb, amputations among diabetic patients are high due to poor foot care and barefoot walking especially among the poor. We screen patients daily with help of instruments such as a Bio-thesiometer and Doppler to detect Neuropathy and Peripheral Vascular Disease along with educating them in proper foot care. Trained surgeons from the plastic surgery department take care of wound treatment and ulcer management. We also conduct routine screening for nephropathy, diabetic gastroparesis, amyotrophy, retinopathy, and other diabetic complications.