India, Aug. 17 -- Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr Jitendra Singh, who is also a Professor of Medicine and Diabetologist, has called for making preventive healthcare and prevention of diabetes a national priority. He also stressed that the growing burden of diabetes in rural India requires a community-led, technology-enabled and data-driven response.

Addressing the inauguration of the RSSDI 'Diabetes Rural Outreach Digital Portal' and launch of VISHWAS, the Diabetes Awareness Video Library, the minister said with more than 70 per cent of India's population below the age of 40, protecting the health and productive potential of the country's young population is essential to the vi...