 I am Dr. Karthik Prabhakar, Consultant and Head of the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. From a diabetes perspective, this is considered and celebrated as World Diabetes Day. Because 14th November happens to be the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who in 1922 discovered insulin along with his colleague Dr. Charles Best. Even discovery revolutionized the way diabetes treatment was made and things changed dramatically. And hence, in respect and in commemoration of this great man, the Canadian physician Frederick Banting, the WHO, the World Health Organization has recognized 14th November as World Diabetes Day. Here this is celebrated to raise the awareness of this diabetes medical condition so that people across the world understand this condition better and deal with this. It is important to know what diabetes is. Diabetes in common terms called as sugar diabetes or modumeha, it's a condition where blood sugar levels go high because insulin secreted by pancreas in the body is either not enough to control the sugar levels or it doesn't work because of what is called as insulin resistance. So this diabetes occurs for reasons such as type 1 diabetes where there is no insulin production at all that tends to happen in young children and young adults. In this condition, body does produce insulin but not in adequate levels and also the insulin doesn't work well, mainly due to obesity and genetic factors. It's very important because in India as we see, patients as young as in 20s and 30s are getting type 2 diabetes which previously used to happen in later part of their life and also even children and adolescents, particularly those with obesity are developing this type of condition which indicates that the diabetes is not only increasing in adults and elderly people, even the young children are getting affected. It's very important because the studies show that approximately 1 in 11 people aged 18 to 79 could have diabetes and it's also known that 1 in 2 of these patients who have diabetes may not even know. So therefore diabetes is becoming a very important lifestyle disease and therefore dealing with it and ensuring efforts are made to prevent it if possible is extremely important. So some patients may be advised to do finger prick monitoring at home, what we call as glucometer check. So if the doctors feel the patients would benefit from finger prick reading, they would do that and they would certainly follow things up based on the readings. So patients, we are encouraging them to have regular follow up and regular consultations with the doctor so that the medications are optimized, thank you.