Diabetics their fears and some solutions

All Diabetics will remember the day they were told they had diabetes. Different people react to the news in different ways.

Questions foremost in the mind of a new diabetic’s mind are:

• ‘Is it serious?’
• ‘Am I going to die?’
• ‘Will I get better?’
• ‘Am I going to lose my legs like that lady in the waiting room?’
• ‘Will I go blind?’
• ‘Will I lose my job?’
• ‘Am I going to lose my driving license?’
• ‘Will I lose my boyfriend?’
• ‘What are you going to do to me now?’
• ‘Will I need to have injections?’
• ‘Will it hurt?’

In the near past there have been many advances in the management of diabetes; but the sad reality that stares society in the face whenever we look at the mirror with respect to diabetes and the way it is presently managed is that of the sad diabetic who wants to do whatever his doctor tell him to do but is unable to due to various reasons.

Let’s round up the usual suspects:

• 58% of people diagnosed with diabetes do not know what the diagnosis means
• More than 1/3rd do not know what questions to ask their doctor.
• 60% of patients with diabetes do not understand what different medicines are available,
• The few to whom the doctor explains the situation, many of them do not understand what their doctor is telling them
• Some people who get some printed material from the doctor are unable to understand the material as it is written.

All if this leads to a feeling of frustration, depression and helplessness.

A solution to the problem lies in providing personalized information that focus on individual circumstances and locally available services.This is what YosCare is aiming to address. We can provide the personalized information at the right time from among the locally available sources.

We seek to achieve this through encouraging more people:


• To understand what questions they need answered
• To prepare for their consultations by maintaining one single health record
• We also provide them with a set of tools that help them meet their doctor’s prescription.
• Thus helping them become an active partner in their treatment plan and thereby building their confidence to understand their condition and its treatment better.

Everyone recognizes that the first step to dealing with a problem is to learn as much as necessary about that problem. Hence the need for educating a diabetic about their condition needs no further discussion.
Then other issues that need to be addressed are then, why do they need a single health record, and why do they need a set of tools.

• The doctor will be able to efficiently tailor the personalized treatment plan if he has all the information that he requires while examining the patient. Therefore to ensure that the patient receives the best quality of care, it is imperative that his health record needs to be up-to-date and available at the time of the consultation.
• The set of tools are a convenient way by which the patient is able to systematically record and maintain his records, while being alerted to the treatment plan that his doctor has developed for him and other guidelines that must be followed for better clinical and quality of life outcomes.

We believe that such an interconnected system which addresses the special needs of a diabetic will go a long way in improving diabetes care in the present day scenario.