Foot clinic sees 50% reduction in diabetic foot amputations

Kumar Sukhraj

By Jeanna Pearson

The reduction in lower limb amputation for diabetic patients has climbed from 43% to 50% in the last five years, according to Dr Kumar Sukhraj of the Diabetic Foot Clinic.

The decline has showed that the clinic, which opened to the public at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in 2008, has managed to reduce the percentage of diabetic foot amputations in its patients.

“The centre is under the spotlight because we would have managed to reduce the rate of amputation by