- PIMA is planning an integrated public awareness campaign.
- Pakistan ranks third in world in terms of number of diabetic patients.
- In Pakistan, three and half million people are suffering from diabetes.
KARACHI: The University of Karachi, Pakistan Islamic Medical Association in collaboration with Discovering Diabetes organized an awareness symposium on diabetes and highlighted the causes of rising cases of diabetes in society.
The event was held at the Faculty of Pharmacy Auditorium on Thursday. The President of PIMA Karachi and a councilor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons Professor Dr Abdullah Muttaqi mentioned that one of the reasons for the increasing figures of diabetes is lack of awareness.
He said that people either do not recognize this disease or they do not pay full attention to its treatment. He shared that in this regard the PIMA is planning an integrated public awareness campaign in which the public will be made aware of the alarming consequences of diabetes through electronic and social media communication.
Meanwhile, the Head of Department at Medicine and Allied, KM&DC Karachi, Prof Dr Qaiser Jamal mentioned that Pakistan ranks third in the world in terms of the number of diabetic patients and first in the proportion of diabetics.
“In Pakistan, three and a half million people are suffering from diabetes, while more than one million people are on the brink of diabetes and one million people are still undiagnosed despite being suffering from diabetes.”
A speaker, the renowned consultant endocrinologist at Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology Dr Zahid Mian said that the number of disabled people due to diabetes has increased at an alarming rate.
He mentioned that every day, diabetic patient is either paralyzed or lose their legs. In this regard, there is a need to open free diabetes treatment and foot care clinics at all levels, both government and non-government.
On this occasion, the KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi said that the majority of people know that diabetes is caused by mental stress, junk food, and lack of physical exercise and can be cured only by reverting to a simple life but they did not implement it in their lives.
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