About 11.2 million Nigerians are living with diabetes, a consultant endocrinologist at the
He stated this yesterday in
iCARE is the implementation of a new global social responsibility strategy called "defeat diabetes" by
Chinenye said of the 11.2m Nigerians living with the disease, about 40 per cent were not diagnosed and already had complications at the time of diagnosis.
He said tertiary health facilities were overwhelmed with his hospital recording an average of 150 diabetes patients per week.
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