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When will oral insulin facility be available?

Dr Surender Kumar
Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism,
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,
New Delhi

Q: At which stage oral insulin experiments are being taken? When will oral insulin be available in India?

A:The problem with oral insulin is that it is destroyed by gastric acid, and it should be released at a time when food enters blood, this is another difficult area to match. Efforts are on it may take a few years. One Indian company is also trying to perfect this technique. It shall be available in India at the same time as anywhere in the whole world.