Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurates Afro-Asian conclave on diabetic children

Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, MoS in PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space has inaugurated Afro-Asian conclave on diabetic children, here today. The Minister of State in his inaugural address said that in our preoccupation with rapidly spreading epidemic of adult Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus, there is sometimes a tendency to ignore the fact that there are over 75000 children with Type-1 Juvenile Diabetes in India who require lifelong insulin for survival.