How do you teach a family how to measure insulin shots for their son when they can’t read letters or numbers? This is the situation Chinchpada doctors found themselves in when 13-year-old Sahas was diagnosed with diabetes.

Neither Sahas nor his parents had ever been to school, and they were completely illiterate. The medical team came up with the idea of putting tapes on the correct line of the syringe for how much insulin he would need, and then they drew an icon to show the rising morning sun, the full afternoon sun, and the setting evening sun. It was a new world for the doctors in trying to figure out how to show them how to do these shots correctly. Innovation was the key to careful diabetes care at home.