The number of sufferers from diabetes have soared in Bangladesh in recent years. There are some 7.0 million identified sufferers from diabetes in Bangladesh although the real number of total sufferers could be greater in the background of the disease not getting detected in so many cases. A country like Bangladesh with a modest national health budget and meagre resources available at individual and familiy levels, need to concentrate more on the preventive sides of diabetes so that people do not acquire this health problem in the first place and to train up the ones who get the disease to keep it under control. If this is done, then the expenditure of resources on diabetes related illnesses can be reasonable and diabetic patients can continue to lead useful and productive lives.
Diabetes related information require regular publicities in the mass media more so to create greater awareness as diabetes is posing as a serious and spreading health concern in the country.
Aminul Islam
Maghbazar, Dhaka
Diabetes threat
FE Team | Published: September 06, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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