It has been confirmed by experts that over five million Nigerians are suffering from Diabetes within a period covering the last quarter of 2015, even as the cases of diabetics around the globe has equally spiraled.
As result of the rate of the increase and spread of the diabetic conditions, stakeholders in the health sector have raised the alarm.
The health experts who made this known at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Abuja, to commemorate the 2015 World Diabetes Day, put the global figure of those currently having the health condition at 415 million.
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 642 million people will live with the condition, accounting for the majority of death and disability worldwide.
