Patients and scores of families continue to live through poor medical facilities in government hospitals as the World Health Organisation (WHO) marks annual World Health Day today, Dunya News reported Thursday.
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Smith says knowing what your risk factor for diabetes as well as the symptoms is the first step to preventing the disease from developing. Conditions are of particular concern for the organization’s Western Pacific region-which includes Japan, China, and the Philippines, among other countries.
Pakistan, Mexico, Egypt and Indonesia are all now in the top 10 countries with the largest number of adults with diabetes. Governments have also committed to achieving 4 time-bound national commitments set out in the 2014 UN General Assembly “Outcome Document on Noncommunicable Diseases”, and attaining the 9 global targets laid out in the WHO “Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs”, which include halting the rise in diabetes and obesity. More than 80 per cent of diabetes deaths occurred in low and middle-income countries. The organization recommends at least two and a half hours of moderate physical activity each week.
“Initiatives such as the Health Star Rating is a great example of how to educate people to make healthier choices”.
One in ten Australians die each year from complications from type 2 diabetes, and each day NSW hospitals carry out more than three type 2 diabetes-related amputations.
“We need to rethink our daily lives: to eat healthily, be physically active and avoid excessive weight gain”, WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said Wednesday.
Diabetes Types 1 and 2 although similar in impact require different responses and strategies if they are to be preventable and treatable.
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The WHO is campaigning for insulin to be made more affordable for all people with diabetes across the world. “Improvements in prevention and management, together with better surveillance, should be prioritized in response to this call”. “When diabetes is uncontrolled, it has dire consequences for health and well-being”. The chronic disease marked by the body’s inability to produce enough insulin to break down sugar in food is known to cause serious complications such as stroke, kidney disease, blindness and heart disease.
