Over 1.6m Nigerians live with diabetes
The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye, has disclosed that over 1.6 million Nigerians were living with type 2 form of diabetes.
He made the disclosure in a chat with journalists in Abeokuta, the state capital, while campaigning and sensitising members of the public on the prevalent rate of diabetes to mark the World Health Day celebration with the Global theme tagged “Kill Diabetes”.
He said 2.2 million Nigerians weree careers of the disease without knowing it, adding that about 30% kidney failures in the country were as a result of diabetes.
“It has been discovered that the rates at which people die come as a result of self-inflicted non-communicable diseases, like cancer, diabetes and cardio-vascular diseases. I will like to put it on record that 30% kidney failure recorded cases came as a result of diabetes.” Ipaye said.
