C'River State Government Enhance Awareness Campaign For Diabetes

AIT REPORT 

The Cross River State Government has commenced sensitisation and advocacy campaign for citizens on the need to live healthy, do routine check ups, and engage in regular exercises to reduce the rate of diabetes in the state.

Statistics show that three out 10 of the four million people living in Cross River State are either diabetic or prone to be.

Base on AIT Report, Commissioner for Health, Inyang Asibong, while urging people to engage in regular exercises, said the advocacy was in collaboration with Aruba Foundation Medical and Health Centre with free medical check up and drugs to people living with diabetes and hypertension.

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The Commissioner, who led other medical practitioners on a five-kilometer walk, said that the free medicare and health advocacy would be a continuous exercise.

Some of the medical doctors spoke on the need for government to step up the advocacy and explained that patients with diabetes and hypertension cases have been on the increase in their hospitals.

Deaths as a result of preventable diseases such as diabetes have been on the increase due to unhealthy lifestyle and lack of proper medicare, a development Cross River State Government said will be reduced by through regular sensitisation, advocacy and free medicals.