Today is World Diabetes Day. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a message on it. The UN office in Baku told that Diabetes is one of the most common noncommunicable diseases. Three hundred and fifty million people worldwide live with diabetes - 80 per cent of them in the developing world - and the disease is becoming more widespread each year due to a combination of ageing populations and the globalization of unhealthy lifestyles: “Unless diagnosed and treated early, diabetes can lead to serious ill-health. Every year, more than three million people who have had diabetes die from problems such as heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. According to the World Health Organization, diabetes-related deaths will increase by two-thirds by 2030. Diabetes is a development issue. The poor are disproportionately at risk, and affected families are often pushed further into poverty. Diabetes is also straining national health systems and threatening to reverse hard-won development gains in low- and middle-income countries, as well as the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Governments across the globe are struggling to protect their citizens from factors that increase the risk of diabetes. These include unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and alcohol abuse. Many governments also face challenges in providing essential diabetes information, treatment and care to those who need them most.”
On this World Diabetes Day, let us commit to greater collective effort to prevent diabetes and improve the quality of life of all who suffer from it, particularly the poor and disadvantaged.
APA