The breakthrough of diabetes in Ziguinchor is seriously worrying, especially since the disease affects a large part of the population. Even if it is difficult to reveal exact figures on the prevalence of this disease, it is clear that thousands of people suffer from diabetes in this southern part of the country. “Certainly, we cannot give precise statistics; but the disease is growing in the region,” says the regional president of the Senegalese Association for Support and Aid to Diabetics (ASSAD), Babacar Wade.
It also raises the issue of patient care. “Only the region’s hospitals, the Regional Hospital and the Peace Hospital, provide this care for diabetics in the region. All diabetic patients from other localities are forced to go to Ziguinchor. underlines the president of ASSAD.
Screening and control will be the highlights of the activities that will mark this day in Ziguinchor, where diabetics are sounding the alarm for better assistance for patients with diabetes. “Medicines are expensive, applied to the demands of the diet”Launch a diabetic member of ASSAD.
The diabetics of the region, like their president, Babacar Wade, also express their satisfaction to the national president of ASSAD, the journalist Baye Omar Guèye, who shows them every year unfailing support in the organization of the day but also in the support.
In an agricultural region, where fruits and other forest products abound, this worrying progression of diabetes is difficult to explain, declares a health technician who is of the opinion that bad eating habits have today largely contributed to raising the prevalence rate of this disease. “Prevention involves changing eating behavior and screening”informs the diabetes focal point in Ziguinchor.
On the occasion of the celebration of this World Diabetes Day, in Ziguinchor, diabetics and the authorities are mobilizing to raise awareness. Diabetics who come for consultation represent a third of people suffering from the disease, reveal the medical authorities of the region who presented the efforts of the State in the management of the disease, with the construction of an anti-diabetic center, like the one installed at the Regional Hospital and the new diabetes treatment center located at the Peace Hospital which is waiting to be received.
A dazzling breakthrough in diabetes which is seriously worrying in this southern region where cases of aspiration abound. This Diabetes Day will certainly allow patients and populations to appreciate the danger that this disease imposes on society.
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