As a medical subspecialty, Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic diseases encompasses a wide array of medical disorders including diabetes mellitus, lipid disorders, obesity, hypertension, and pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreatic, gonadal, and reproductive diseases. Many of these diseases, particularly diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia, are widely prevalent in Pakistan. The Pakistan Diabetes Survey, published in 1995 in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), noted a prevalence of diabetes among sixteen per cent of adults with a further nine per cent of adults with impaired glucose tolerance.

Prof. Nusrat ullah Chaudry Head of Department	Prof. Gulsena Masud Khan Professor & Head of Medicine Unit-II
Dr. Sarah Shoaib Qureshi Assistant Professor

For the cause of effecting people lives positively, Diabetic clinic was established in 2003 at GTTH, with the slogan of assuring the present & improving the future of diabetes, and endocrinal and metabolic disease care in Pakistan. Diabetic clinic is headed by Prof Dr Nusrat Ullah Chaudhry and supervised by Prof Gulsena Masud Khan. Dr Sarah Shoaib is the physician incharge.

Diabetic center runs 2 days a week (Tuesday and Thursday) from 9:00 am to 01:00 PM. Diabetic care centre provides facilities for blood glucose checking, comprehensive diabetes care regarding treatment, patient education, screening and preventing diabetes complications. This Clinic also provides consultancy services regarding diet, self-monitoring of glucose and patient education. We have a close liaison with other departments like ophthalmology, dental, radiology and gynecology to prevent diabetic complications and manage them once they have set in.

We also hold HbA1c and cholesterol camps where they are checked free of cost and given treatment and education accordingly. Poor patients are also helped with free medication.

The nutrition clinic is designed to provide nutrition care counselling and non-pharmacologic interventions to patients for the management and/or prevention of chronic diseases. The approach is a holistic one involving not only the patient but also other significant persons in his/her life. The attempt is to guide the patient towards an optimum nutritional status and a healthier lifestyle that will benefit not only the patient but also his/her family. Diseases that particularly require nutritional counselling include obesity, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemias and heart disease, chronic renal failure, liver disease, multiple food allergies and intolerance, and malnutrition in both children and adults.

Clinical research at diabetic centre focuses on effects of diabetes mellitus and metabolic diseases on local populations, and methods of improving delivery of care.