Madhumehika
Diabetes Education Forum (later changed to Foundation - DEF), Allahabad was founded in 2001 when it also launched its quarterly publication which was christened “Madhumehika” by our then Vice President and Patron, late Mr RN Srivastava. Madhumehika is distributed free of cost to almost 7000 life members (and growing). It endeavours to educate and update the public about different aspects of diabetes using both Hindi and English. Each Madhumehika is theme based, pertaining to the previous camp conducted. Each largely attended quarterly camps focuses not only on diabetes – from lifestyle to self-monitoring to complications to nuances of insulin to hypoglycemia to diabetes in women, but also any situation that people with diabetes may encounter throughout their lifespan– from infections to hormone problems to ACS to organ transplantation to anesthesia…