Community Outreach
BEMDA works at a grass-roots level providing community outreach training and support by:
- Raising Awareness of Diabetes and related potential long-term health complications especially in the black and ethnic minority communities.
- Empowering diabetics in the target communities to become expert patients in the self-management and control of their health condition(s) through education, training, advice, peer support group sessions and other health promotion programmes at the grass-root level.
- Improving access to health care in general and encouraging screening for diabetes in particular for early intervention, in partnership with existing professional services.
- Promoting physical exercise and healthier diet and nutrition for the reduction of cholesterol and obesity.
- Improving treatment compliance and empowering the target communities to be able to make informed choice (s), with a view to preventing the development of new Type 2 diabetes cases and delaying the development of life-threatening health complications.
- Promote the training of Community Peer Educators/ Health Promotion Assistants for diabetes support in partnership with the statutory health sector.
- Empowering diabetics of working age to remain in, take up employment or self-employment of their own choice(s).