Dr. Dante Ruskin, diabetologist & intensivist Dr. Dante Ruskin Diabetes & Critical Care Specialist
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Dr. Dante Ruskin, diabetologist & intensivist, PPK Hospital, Marthandam

Dr. Dante Ruskin Diabetologist & Critical Care Specialist

One doctor for your daily sugar control, and for the emergency

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Answered by Dr. Dante Ruskin · Diabetologist & Intensivist

Dr. Dante Ruskin is a senior diabetologist and critical-care (ICU) specialist at PPK Hospital, Marthandam, in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. With about 24 years of experience in medicine, diabetology and intensive care, he treats type-2 and type-1 diabetes, insulin management, diabetic foot, and diabetic emergencies for patients across Kanyakumari and southern Kerala.

His practice is unusual in one important way: the same doctor who manages your daily sugar control is also an intensivist who leads ICU care if an emergency arises. He consults daily at NABH-accredited PPK Hospital, holds monthly camps in nearby towns, and offers video second opinions for patients in Chennai, Bangalore, Salem, and Tindivanam.

One senior doctor for your sugar — and for the day it becomes serious

Most people with diabetes see one doctor for routine sugar control and are handed to a different, unfamiliar team if a crisis comes — very high sugar, a foot that will not heal, a stroke, a heart attack. Dr. Ruskin closes that gap. As both a diabetologist and a critical-care specialist, he manages your everyday treatment and stays your doctor in an emergency, with 24×7 ICU backup at PPK Hospital, Marthandam. That continuity — one senior clinician who knows your history at every stage — is the reason families across Kanyakumari district have trusted him for a generation.

What Dr. Ruskin treats

Type-2 diabetes · Insulin & tablets · Diabetic foot & neuropathy · Diabetes in pregnancy · Thyroid with diabetes · Stroke emergency · Heart attack · ICU & ventilator care

Where he consults — 14 towns, three states

Daily (main base): Marthandam — PPK Hospital. Monthly camps & referral (Kanyakumari district): Swamiyarmadam, Thuckalay, Nagercoil, Colachel, Kulasekharam, Kollemcode. Southern Kerala: Parassala, Neyyattinkara, Trivandrum. Online second opinions: Chennai, Salem, Tindivanam, Bangalore.

Credentials

M.B.B.S., Tirunelveli Medical College · M.D. (General Medicine) · Diploma in Diabetology · Diploma in Echocardiography · clinical service at Madras Medical College (MMC), Chennai · ~24 years in medicine, diabetology & intensive care · Chief Diabetologist & Critical Care Specialist, PPK Hospital, Marthandam (100-bed, NABH-accredited, 44+ years serving the district).

Everyday sugar questions, answered

Is papaya good for diabetes? Can you eat jackfruit? Which rice spikes sugar less? Short, honest answers to the food questions patients actually ask — written for Tamil Nadu and Kerala plates, by a doctor who has answered them in clinic for twenty-four years.

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How a consultation works

Message on WhatsApp or tap Book and choose what suits you: an in-person visit at PPK Hospital, Marthandam (daily), a monthly camp near your town, or a video consultation for follow-ups and second opinions. Bring your recent sugar reports and current medicines — or photograph them into WhatsApp beforehand. First visits end with a written plan: what each medicine does, your personal sugar targets, food guidance for the meals you actually cook, and exactly when to review. Between visits, reports can be shared for review without a bus journey. Video consultations are for planned care only — never for emergencies.

Emergency?

Sudden weakness, face drooping, chest pain, unconsciousness, very high sugar with vomiting — call 108 now (free ambulance). PPK Hospital, Marthandam runs 24×7 emergency and ICU care on the Trivandrum–Nagercoil highway, opposite the CSI Church.

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