As part of the project, the Diabetic Foot Society of India will train 2,280 healthcare professionals in modern wound care treatment supported by Access to Healthcare and the World Diabetes Foundation.

The wound care project is one of three projects that we operate in India. The other two projects are also educational projects -- one about ostomy care and the other about spinal cord injuries (see fact box). All projects are designed to increase doctors' and nurses' knowledge of treatment and care of taboo and neglected diseases within wound, ostomy and continence care.

"Coloplast develops products and services for people with personal and private medical conditions. These conditions are treated well in the western world, but in developing countries, like India, they hardly get any attention. The knowledge level is low, and the consequences for these people are large," says Per Ole Nielsen, Senior Project Manager, Access to Healthcare, Coloplast.