A brief Story about Insulin

I found out about this signpost of modern medicine via XING. A member shows a picture of a child on a wheeled stretcher in their timeline. There is obviously a child lying on it.

A sad place is reported. Children are still dying from complications of dialectical ketoacidosis in a paediatric ward at a hospital in Toronto, Canada. Parents sit by the bed and wait for their offspring to die. Then men enter the hospital room and give each child an injection. When the last injections are given, the first children wake up from their apathetic state, which is described as a diabetic coma.

Within a few minutes, a hospital ward whose walls are coated with a varnish of infinite sadness and despair becomes a room of hope for the many millions of people who have benefited since today from the invention of industrial insulin production for around a hundred years.