Staff Reporter
Senior Diabetologist Dr. Obaid Ahmed Hashmi on Friday expressed serious concern over growing rise in number of diabetes cases in country and urged the government should take emergency steps to create an aggressive mass awareness campaign to help control over this disease.
Speaking on a private news channel in connection with ‘World Diabetes Day’ to be observed on Saturday(tomorrow) across the world including Pakistan, Dr. Obaid Ahmed Hashmi described the situation as alarming and said the number of diabetic patients was continuously rising where mostly youngsters and women both are at high risk of being diabetic patient due to change in their lifestyles.
About 80 lakh people have been suffering from diabetes in the county, he said, adding, diabetes had become endemic in Pakistan and now every fourth Pakistani was a diabetic while millions including 9.7% women ratio were about to get affected with the disease due to their unhealthy lifestyle.
“Most of the common people are still not adequately aware of the risks of the silent killer disease which gradually destroys the immune system of human body,” he said. He said the aim of observing this day is to create more media awareness and impart basic knowledge about Diabetes among general public and various programmes have also been taken to observe the World diabetic day across the country to make people aware of diabetes.
