{"id":1449,"date":"2014-01-14T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2014-01-14T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:34:00","slug":"iit-mumbai-bits-hyderabad-jointly-develop-first-indigenous-diabetic-testing-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/iit-mumbai-bits-hyderabad-jointly-develop-first-indigenous-diabetic-testing-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT-Mumbai and BITS-Hyderabad Jointly Develop First Indigenous Diabetic Testing Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/123.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1450\" alt=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/123.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>The Health Ministry on Wednesday launched its first ever indigenous diabetic testing kit, which is developed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/top-engineering-colleges\/iit-bombay\/\">IIT-Mumbai <\/a>and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/top-engineering-colleges\/bits-pilani\/\"> BITS-Hyderabad<\/a> and funded by Indian Council for Medical Research.<\/p>\n<p>This indigenous kit is expected to bring relief for millions of diabetics in India who spend a huge amount of money regularly from their earnings to test their blood glucose levels.<\/p>\n<p>This kit will make mass screening and detection of blood glucose levels in people possible.<\/p>\n<p>This indigenous diabetic testing kit will cost between Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 as compared to foreign-made kits, currently available in Indian market, which cost anywhere from Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 2,500. Each strip will cost between Rs. 2 and Rs. 4 against current price of Rs. 18-Rs. 35.<\/p>\n<p>Slated to release in next 6 months, the kit will be manufactured by Biosense Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIt is estimated that the people with diabetes will cross 100 million in the next 10-15 years unless major steps involving government and people together are taken. In India, it is no longer a disease of the rich but has started affecting the middle class, the lower class, and even youth and children,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d said Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Over 65 million people in India are diabetics with frequency of 6%.<br \/>\nThis post was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109449750854720186719?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aditya Singhal<\/a>, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\">askIITians<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Ministry on Wednesday launched its first ever indigenous diabetic testing kit, which is developed by the IIT-Mumbai and BITS-Hyderabad and funded by Indian Council for Medical Research. This indigenous kit is expected to bring relief for millions of diabetics in India who spend a huge amount of money regularly from their earnings to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}