Bridgetown.
The Barbados Diabetes Foundation yesterday donated 4400 monofilament tools to the Ministry of Health, to test sensitivity of the feet of Barbadians.
These tools will be distributed to 12 centres, including polyclinics and will be monitored by the foundation diabetes committe.
Dr Oscar Jordan, the chairman of the foundation said with the help of these tools, he hoped that the rate of amputations on the island will be lower.
In the past decade Barbados has been reffered to as the amputation captial of the Caribbean.
