World Diabetes Day: Six Million Nigerians Living With Disease

As the world celebrates World Diabetes Disease Day (WDD) today, experts are concerned that six million Nigerians – one in every ten adults – have diabetes, with the number expected to double by 2030, leaving the country in the grip of a “ticking time bomb.”

This year’s theme, “Access to Diabetes Care,” aims to raise awareness of the undeniable fact that many people living with Diabetes around the world do not have access to diabetes care. Diabetic patients need current care and support to manage their condition and avoid complications.

Nine out of ten diabetics have one of two variants: a way of life sickness connected to blubber and unhealthy living. One variant is associated with an unpreventable disease that develops in childhood.

Prof. Olufemi A. Fasanmade, President of Endocrine and Metabolism Society of African Nation (EMSON), and authority medical specialist at the faculty of medication, University of Port (CMUL)/Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), said in an exclusive interview with The Guardian, that the burden of DM in African Nation was steadily increasing and sufferers were paying between N20,000 and N150, 000 monthly to remain healthy and alive.

A medical specialist could be a doctor or UN agency that specialises in treating disorders of the system, like polygenic disease, gland disease, and plenty of others.

As the epidemic of Diabetes continues, it additionally came to light yesterday that one hundred years after its discovery, endocrine continues to be out of the reach of the many that live with Diabetes.

The distressing news is contained in an extremely new report printed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the lead-up to the 2021 WDD.

As the country’s rising poverty rate ensures that hormones are out of reach for the poor, Dr. Samuel Oghene Etatuvie, a community druggist and also the Director General of the African Nation Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA), has stated that the agency includes a natural method of treating discomfort with fewer side effects than conventional pharmaceutical products.

Fasanmade explained that from the 1960s to the 1970s, Diabetes was found in only 0.5%–1% of adults in African countries, but by the 1980s–1990s, the figure had risen to 1.4%–2.2% of adults.

However, “currently, 5.7% of adults are affected by Diabetes, and 10%–15% have pre-diabetes.”

In urban and suburban areas, a minimum of one in ten adults has Diabetes, at the same time that thirty per cent of individuals with cardiovascular disease also have Diabetes.

Sadly, the country’s 5 to 6 million diabetics are among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. It’s additionally over the amount of death evoked by T.B., Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and COVID-19. “As Fasanmade previously stated.

Fasanmade commented on the cost of living with polygenic disease, saying, “Diabetes could be a terribly expensive condition.”

In Nigeria, a typical patient with it will pay N20, 000 to N30, 000 to properly manage it.

This is often just like the minimum and covers medications, blood tests, and clinic group action. Once complications like renal disorder inherit the image, some patients have a monthly expenditure of N100, 000 to N150, 000. Within the US (US), up to $300 billion is spent on Diabetes each year.

The figures for total Diabetes expenditures in African nations are uncertain. One phial of endocrine is N6, 000 to N10, 000, and patients use one or two per month. A box of strips for testing blood glucose is concerning N6,000 and patients would like one or two per month.

Some tablets cost as little as N2,000 per month and as much as N30,000 per month. Patients may square measure on 2 to a few medications.

Factors contributing to the increase in the variety of diabetic cases: Fasanmade aforementioned, western lifestyle, smoking, drinking, and increasing lifetime were risk factors.