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Meeting on Diabetic Foot & Wound Healing

Diabetes Research Centre, Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) and Medical Council of India organised a multinational study group meeting on 'Diabetic Foot and Wound Healing' at CLRI, Chennai from 12th to 13th December, 2009. Eminent doctors from all over the world addressed this meeting, which happened for the first time in India. The meeting was inaugurated by Dr David Armstrong, Professor of Surgery & Director, Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Allianc, University of Arizona, College of Medicine, USA.

"The objective of this study group was to combine the expertise from the developing and developed countries. 'Preventing Diabetic Foot Amputations' was the key theme of this meet. The major focus of this conference was to build bridges between experts working in the field of the diabetic foot in different parts of the world," said Dr Vijay Viswanathan, Organising Secretary of this meeting and also Managing Director, MV Hospital for Diabetes & Diabetes Research Centre, Chennai. "The first meeting of the study group with experts from different countries like India, the US, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Bangladesh, South Korea and Japan highlighted all these issues and the speakers shared their experience on the management of the diabetic foot in their own countries," he added.

Some of the topics covered were current review of diabetic ulcer wound healing, toe flow and metabolic know, covering the risk spectrum of vascular disease, characteristics of diabetic foot problems in Western Pacific Region, management modalities for diabetic foot, diabetic foot clinic in Saudi experience and surgical approach of treating diabetic foot infection - Bangladesh experience.

EH News Bureau