Aside from discussing healthy eating in the schools and dropping the pop, some exercise, talking to schools about people exercising, talking about walking with people, we’re also looking at carefully expanding the home care so that people with diabetes, that more attention is paid to people’s feet. With diabetes there are a lot of preventable amputations that do occur in the health system. Each amputation costs about $80,000 and there are numbers out there indicating that about 80 percent of those are preventable. If we can step up the home care to make sure that anybody that has diabetes who ends up with ulcers on their feet that attention is paid to that immediately and then we may be able to prevent. The thought is that we may be able to prevent 80 percent of the amputations, which will save a lot of money in the system.
Tom Beaulieu on Question 93-17(3): Diabetes In The Sahtu Region
In the Legislative Assembly on June 5th, 2012. See this statement in context.
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