Juvenile diabetes is Type 1 category developing in individuals of young age . To survive the patient needs external complement of insulin. It is not infectious, nor hereditary, although genetics is thought to be a factor for diabetics. It strikes without respect to race, religion, caste or money power. For depletion of health and strength, the diabetic child becomes an easy prey to other diseases, infections and degenerative changes of vital organs - especially to pneumonia, tuberculosis, gangrene, glucoma.

There are about 1 million (10 lakh) juvenile diabetics in India. Every year 27 thousand diabetic children (2 to 14 years of age) around the world die of the disease. 45 percent of them , more than 12 thousand in figure, die in India itself. There is no count of how many die undiagnosed.

Among those who are diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, 70 percent come from poor families.

Not less than half of them have to earn living and help parents, instead of going to the school. Insulin is a thing alien to them, or it sounds a luxury of talk. So, before long, they develop chronic or acute complications of diabetes,e.g., retinopathy(relating to the eye),neuropathy (relating to sensor and motor complications),nephropathy (relating to kidney), or diseases relating to the heart, gastro, intestine, etc.

Even those whose parents could afford to get them admitted to the school would often conceal their disease, circumscribed by the raging superstition in the rural areas.