Digital Camera Tests Advised to Diabetics
May 20, 2009
Diabetes UK, a British charities aid foundation and diabetic association that functions for the welfare of the diabetes patients as well as the people who care for them, has opined that the best way to capture in-depth images of the eye to locate blindness causing diabetic retinopathy is through a digital camera.
The opinion of the association comes in the wake of a report stating around half a million UK diabetics were risking their eyesight by shying away from advanced tests. The charity makes it clearer by pointing out the fact that above 26 percent of the diabetes stricken adults in the UK had not taken the test last year.
The information, care and advocacy services director at Diabetes UK, Simon O'Neill commented that the charity was concerned that half a million diabetics in the country have still not had their eye-check using an advanced digital camera, as part of a retinal screening programme. Reports also substantiate his arguments saying that above sixty percent of the primary NHS care trusts were seldom hitting the 80 percent screening rate for adults with diabetes.
Meanwhile, a fund raising event was run by Diabetes UK on 15th May, which was titled 'Care for a Cuppa Day'. The event aimed at the hosting of a thousand tea parties in order to generate a fund of GBP150,000 as support offer to the charity.
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