Onuminya Innocent in Sokoto
A medical consultant at the Department of Internal Medicine, Usman Danfodio University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH) in Sokoto State, Dr. Musa Tambuwal, has said 30 million cases of diabetes are recorded world-wide in which Nigeria has over four million patients.
Tambuwal stated this yesterday in his office as part of activities to mark World Diabetes Day.
He described the rate by which hospitals in Nigeria were recording cases of diabetes as alarming and attributed this to bad lifestyle or lack of exercise to burn excess blood sugar.
“You know diabetes is an excess blood sugar that can results to complications. Prior to this time, our fore fathers did hard work by going to the farm and ate fresh foods. But the case is different now, our people go to fast food joints to eat junks. These foods have excess salt and sugar which can cause health problems like diabetes,” he said. The medical expert added that diabetes…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
