Wednesday, November 15, 2023

WORLD DIABETES DAY

 WORLD DIABETES DAY

Date:15/11/2023

World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness campaign focusing on diabetes mellitus and it is marked every year on 14th November, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co- discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922. The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021-23 is access to diabetes care. 14th November was another special day, so we celebrated Diabetes Day on 15th November.


Abhinand Sasi K, first year B.Ed Physical science student, presented a speech on the cause and prevention of diabetes which is one of our life style diseases. After that, a cartoon competition was organised at the department level in connection with topic "diabetes awareness". Athira Pavithran from first year B.Ed English department secured the first position and Drishya Chandran VP from first year B.Ed Mathematics department secured the second position.