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Community member is tested for diabetes at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal.
Wits University says the newly launched National Diabetes Dashboard will help to improve timely intervention in diabetes management.
The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) launched the dashboard on Tuesday.
The institution’s Chemical Pathology Department Head, Dr Siyabonga Khoza, says old methods hindered timely intervention as they took time to review data.
He says the dashboard will improve the quality of life for patients living with diabetes.
Khoza says, “Indirectly, that will assist an individual to manage diabetes or individuals who are at risk because we want to identify these individuals so that we prevent complications.”
He says, “So by doing all of this and having this data available to facility managers, clinicians at different facilities, they can say in our facility, how many patients are at risk of developing complications, how many patients need aggressive or additional kinds of therapy that can be done quite sooner with the availability of the data.”
PODCAST | Interview with Khoza on SAFM’s First Take programme:
