Department of Endocrinology

Diabetes Clinic

We provide the following:

  • Diabetes education and counselling
    • Lifestyle changes, such as incorporating regular exercises
    • Range and effects of available oral agents for diabetes
    • Insulin therapy and home blood sugar testing
    • Preventing and managing acute and chronic complications
    • Emotional adjustments to coping with diabetes
    • Other special needs like caring for elderly with diabetes, travelling tips for people with diabetes and coping during Ramadan for Muslim patients
  • Dietary Counselling
    • Implement specific diet strategies and plan meals
    • Medical nutritional therapy for disease states that are linked to diabetes
  • Advice on footwear and foot care to prevent these complications
    • Corns and calluses
    • Thickened and deformed nails
    • Ingrown and fungal-infected nails
    • Diabetic foot ulcers
    • Charcot joint deformity
    • Gangrene

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Endocrinology Specialists
Diabetes Nurse Clinicians