A Saudi medical professor confirmed that there are nearly four thousand cases of amputation of a foot in Saudi Arabia annually as a result of diabetes, which means approximately ten feet per day, calling for the application of medical standards in the decision to amputate limbs in diabetic patients whose cases reach gangrene, and that this is not It must be based on scientific foundations to be taken by a medical team treating medical cases after making sure of the development of the blood circulation feeding the affected limb.
The general supervisor of the Muhammad Hussain Al-Amoudi Chair for Diabetic Foot Research, professor of surgery and consultant vascular surgery at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Professor Hassan bin Ali Al-Zahrani, said the patient with gangrene asks and his family about the part that is amputated, and the answer comes that it should not be rushed to perform an operation Amputation, except after conducting tests to find out the level of blood supply and the location of the narrowing or blockage, where the vascular surgeon can determine the level of amputation, according to what "Okaz" newspaper quoted him in a report.
The Diabetic Foot Research Chair at the Founder University added a guide that deals with clinical practices in treating diabetic feet, explaining that the diabetic foot is a major problem due to the lack of awareness of diabetic patients about it, indicating that half of diabetic patients do not know that they have diabetic foot, and that nerve damage leads to Lack of foot feeling and lack of pain when injured, therefore, people with diabetes are at risk of losing their feet more than 25 times as a result of amputation, stressing that awareness, guidance and prevention can significantly reduce diabetic foot cases, and knowing the condition and treating it prevents amputation as well.
