A coalition of concerned local organizations are making it easy for who are concerned about their risk of contracting diabetes to find out exactly where they stand. Free blood sugar testing for the disease is being sponsored locally in November
A coalition of concerned local organizations are making it easy for who are
concerned about their risk of contracting diabetes to find out exactly where
they stand.
Free blood sugar testing for the disease is being sponsored
locally in November — National Diabetes Month — by Kaua`i Medical Clinic,
Ho`ola Lahui Hawai`i, Shoreview Pharmacy, Kaua`i Department of Health, American
Diabetes Association, Diabetes Awareness Coalition of Hawai`i, Kaua`i Diabetes
Task Force and Life Scan and Bayer Corp.
On Nov. 4, the testing will be
sponsored in three locations: Kmart in Lihu`e from 8 to 11:30 a.m., Big Save in
Waimea, also from 8 to 11:30, and at Cost-U-Less in Kapa`a from 9 a.m. to
noon.
More free testing is available Nov. 7 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Kaua`i
Medical Clinic in ‘Ele’ele, and on Nov. 18 from 8 a.m. to noon at Kukui Grove’s
Senior Health Fair.
Fasting is not required.
Additional information is
available at 246-1629.
Staff writer Dennis Wilken can be reached at
245-3681 (ext. 252) and dwilken@pulitzer.net
