Started in 2017, city-based Idhayangal Charitable Trust supports 200 children with Type 1 diabetes across the state
COIMBATORE: City-based Idhayangal Charitable Trust, which has been providing free insulin to poor children with Type 1 diabetes, is now raising funds to buy insulin pumps.
There are 1,500 children with type 1 diabetes in Coimbatore districts alone, of whom 80% can’t afford even basic insulin, said consultant endocrinologist at Kovai Medical Center and Hospital and founding trustee of the trust Dr Krishnan Swaminathan. “An insulin pump is like an artificial pancreas that produces a basal dose of insulin in small doses throughout the day. With a small press on the device, a child can increase dose before or after meals or reduce it before exercise.”