Seminar on diabetes

JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Diabetes Association held a one- day discussion on ways to treat diabetes, at the Koja Hospital in North Jakarta on Friday.

The meeting, which was attended by 250 general practitioners from public health centers in the North Jakarta mayoralty, was aimed mainly at improving doctors' knowledge in handling diabetes patients.

"The meeting was to disseminate knowledge on diabetes, which used to be a field only specialists knew, to public practitioners," Lydiana G., co-chairperson of the organizing committee, was quoted by the Antara news agency as saying.

The meeting featured six diabetes experts as speakers -- Mardi Santoso, Sidartarwan Soegondo, Slamet Suyono, Utoyo Sukaton, Lindarsih Notowidjojo and Lilie Herawati. (hhr)