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The Ministry of Health is pleased to partner with the Rotary Club of Dominica and the Dominica Diabetes Association in what is the first of a two year Training Programme\u00a0 under the theme \u201c Maintaining Healthy Feet Step by Step\u201d in improving the management and prevention of the Diabetic Foot in Dominica.<\/p>\n
The first course modeled on the Step-by-Step programme developed by a team of foot care experts on behalf of the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) is scheduled for October 24 \u2013 26, 2011, at the Public Service Training Centre<\/p>\n
The participants are taught the principles of basic foot care education and practical management guidelines, given practical training in foot care and equipped with a simple set of instruments for daily practice.<\/p>\n
The training programme aims to build low cost health care capacity, reduce lower limb complications and unnecessary amputations in people with diabetes and empower people with diabetes to take care better of their feet.<\/p>\n
In Dominica we have seen a disturbing increase in diabetes– related foot ulcerations and amputations. This training programme will strengthen the foot care programme of the Ministry of Health by training a core of doctors and nurses from Primary Health Care, the Princess Margaret Hospital and the local private hospital.\u00a0 This core of health professionals will facilitate skills transfer by training their colleagues and so contribute to the sustainability of the programme<\/p>\n
The diabetic foot became a key focus area for the WDF due to growing evidence that the foot tends to be neglected in health care, resulting in unnecessary foot complications and amputations.<\/p>\n
The programme will be facilitated by Dr. Vilma Urban\u010di\u010d, a diabetologist who is an Associate Professor of medicine and head of the Diabetes Unit at the Department of Endocrinology, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana in Slovenia and his team.<\/p>\n
Financial and other support for this programme came from the Government of Dominica,\u00a0 the Rotary Clubs of Hereford UK,\u00a0 Ohio US and\u00a0 Dominica, the Rotary Foundation, the Dominica Diabetes Association and the International Diabetes Federation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Health is pleased to partner with the Rotary Club of Dominica and the Dominica Diabetes Association in what is the first of a two year Training Programme\u00a0 under the theme \u201c Maintaining Healthy Feet Step by Step\u201d…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":46548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n