Ciprofloxacin is being used left, right and centre like aspirin, she added. Each untreated TB patient infects 20 others, said Dr Salil Bendre. This is why TB is spreading very fast, with 56,000 Indians being infected every year, said. In the last module on diabetology, Dr Shashank Joshi, a diabetologist, said the nutraceutical market was eight times the size of the Indian pharmaceutical market. Nutraceutical stocks are also running high.
Exercise is the cheapest way to manage diabetes.
For diabetes, care is much better than cure. Some scientific work is really required on herbal molecules to treat diabetes, said Dr Suresh Mehtalia, consultant diabetologist, Harkisondas hospital. S Mukherjee, General Manager, Marketing, USB, said pharma companies should look beyond therapeutics and offer lifestyle changes. We don't take cognizance of diabetes as a national problem.