Hyderabad: Patient´s family suffers from financial burden
(WorldNews India)

Hyderabad: Type 1 diabetes continues to place a big financial burden on a patient’s family. Also known as juvenile diabetes, patients with it need insulin for survival. And insulin doesn’t come cheap — patients have to spend anywhere up to Rs 5,000 for sufficient quantities for a month. It is the underprivileged class that suffers the most because of this. Syed Samdan (14) was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was just nine years old. His family’s life has not been the same since. His father Syed Habeeb (42) used to be a cloth wholesaler but...