Startup offers single-window system for diabetic footcare

TO address the lack of coordinated diabetic foot care in the healthcare system, a Bengaluru-based platform, FootSecure, has developed an integrated model that brings diagnostics, treatment, and preventive services under one roof, to reduce the high number of diabetes-related amputations in the country, over 1.4 million annually, many of which are considered medically avoidable.

- RISHITA KHANNA @Bengaluru

Unlike most hospitals, where diabetic foot care is absent or spread across departments, requiring patients to visit different specialists for scans, consultations, dressings, and footwear, FootSecure offers a single-window system specifically for foot complications.

The model combines digital assessment tools, wound care, minor surgical procedures, custom footwear production, and remote follow-up through a centralised platform.

The platform was started in 2019 by Dr Sanjay Sharma, a Chief Foot Surgeon, who realised the overwhelming shortage of experts in the podiatric field and decided to bring everything related to diabetic foot, among other orthopaedic conditions, under a roof.