Diabetic patient cases rise in Ghana

Findings from research conducted by an expert in diabetes have shown that between four and six percent of Ghanaians are living with diabetes.

This was disclosed in an interview with TV Africa News at a two-day workshop held in Cape Coast for young people living with the disease. The event was under the theme, “Women and Diabetes, Our Right to a Healthy Future.”

The two days workshop that formed part of the World Diabetes Day marked on every 14th of November saw close to a hundred young people suffering from this disease seated at the Cape Coast GNAT Conference Room to receive a talk on diabetes.

The facilitator, Dr. Enoch Dompreh, took the youth through causes of the disease, symptoms, effects and ways of managing it.

The Board Chair of an NGO, Diabetes Youth Incorporated, Dr. Marc Dzradosi, disclosed how millions of the citizens fall prey to the disease.

The president of the Diabetes Youth Club, 24-year-old Joseph Kwamina Lash, who said he had lived with the disease for seven years, related to our News Team how it is like suffering from diabetes, and, the need for all to be of help to diabetic patients.

The secretary of the Kafui Foundation, Ernestina B. Agbeuzah, one of the sponsors of the youth living with diabetes, pleaded with the citizenry to desist from stigmatizing diabetic patients.

Representatives of the Cape Coast Lion club, an NGO that supports the vulnerable in society, added their voice to the call on all to be of help to diabetic patients.