03-08-2025
Bengaluru startup offers single-window system for diabetic footcare
BENGALURU: 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.
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. 'At the clinic level, patients are first screened using AI-assisted foot scanners that detect high-risk pressure points, even before external wounds or ulcers are visible. These are followed by gait and weight distribution analyses, which help identify how a patient's posture and walking pattern may contribute to injury risk. Based on this, the centre either initiates preventive care or moves the patient into wound management,' Dr Sharma explained.
