Innovative tech to help people living with diabetes

Kaya Biz

GUEST – Dr Grant Newton - CEO of the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology
Two healthcare companies in the South Africa, 3Sixty Global Solutions Group and the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology (CDE) are introducing devices to help people living with diabetes monitor blood sugar levels without injections or needles.
Currently Diabetics must prick their fingers to know if sugar level is too high or too low in their bodies. The companies are getting rid of the painful injections by introducing needle-free devices. This means people living with diabetes will no longer jab themselves to monitor blood sugar levels. This is a milestone, as monitoring sugar in the blood will be painless. One device you have to wear on the arm to monitor the sugar level. The other is a mobile hand held camera to detect complications of diabetes, diseases such as Diabetic retinopathy (complication of diabetes that affects the eyes), Diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage due to diabetes that can affect the legs and feet). This is good news to people living with diabetes because they have been suffering from needle-phobia. Kaya FM