While applauding an announcement by the Scottish Government to stimulate the availability of insulin pumps for maximum number of patients, Martyn Carr, a student from Barrhead, has marked it as a very positive initiative to depict that the government has recognized the issue. Martyn Carr is studying for a HNC at Cardonald College and has grabbed public attention for putting his hard efforts in a campaign outlined to support people living with diabetes seeking better treatment.

As per the reports, the Health Secretary, Nicola Sturgeon, has assured the public of increasing the accessibility of insulin pumps for more than a quarter of Scot youngsters, aged 18 years or less, suffering from Type 1 diabetes, most probably by 2013.

Further, she claimed that the availability of insulin pumps will collapse the need of injecting several injections and therefore it can help people to lead a normal life. Ms. Nicola Sturgeon insisted that the growing problem needs an immediate solution, particularly in Scotland where the disease and related health complications account for around 10% of overall hospital expenditure.

The natives as well as a number of health experts and authorities, including the Director of the Diabetes UK Scotland charity, Jane-Claire Judson, have greeted the announcement and marked it as "wonderful news".

Simultaneously, the Diabetes UK Scotland has notified that around 2% of type 1 diabetic people in the region have an insulin pump as compared to 3.9% people in England and Wales.

Type 1 diabetes is a severe health condition that is triggered by inadequate or no production of a vital hormone, insulin, in the body. Pancreas serves as a site for production of the hormone that is necessary for the glucose absorption into the cells to be used as fuel. The health condition is already known to affect a number of lives across the globe.