DIABETES: Five Million Nigerians Suffering from disease

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The health experts made this known at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Abuja on Friday, to commemorate the 2015 World Diabetes Day, put the global figure of those currently having the health condition at 415 million. With increasing cases of diabetics around the globe stakeholders in the health sector have raised the alarm over the spread of diabetic conditions in the country, estimating that Nigerians suffering from the disease were about 5 million within the last quarter of 2015.


They stressed that the global figure was projected to rise to 642 million people by the year 2035, unless drastic measures such as consumer policies and change in lifestyles, especially healthy nutrition were adopted to put a check on the rising figures According to the General Manager, Sanofi Nigeria-Ghana, Abderrahmane Chakibi, "Today, only one in two people living with diabetes know they have it. By 2035,it is estimated that 642million people will live with the condition, accounting for the majority of death and disability worldwide.

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