Some diabetic children from low-income Hong Kong families repeatedly use disposable needles when testing their blood sugar levels because they struggle to afford spending HK$2,000 on medical examinations every month, a concern group has found.
Such recurrent use would heighten the risk of blood infection for the young patients, while poor management of glucose levels could lead to serious complications such as organ damage, the Youth Diabetes Action warned.
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