Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Launches Indo-French Liver And Metabolic Disease Network

Union Science and Technology Minister Dr Jitendra Singh has said that there is an urgent need to develop simple, low-cost diagnostic tests for the detection of different stages of fatty liver. Dr Singh said this while launching Indo-French Liver and Metabolic Disease Network to prevent and cure metabolic liver diseases at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New



Delhi on Friday.

The Minister highlighted that this network aims to address key issues related to a common metabolic liver disorder and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. He said that every third Indian has fatty liver, which predates Type – 2 Diabetes and other metabolic disorders.