The activities of the Diabetes Week in Cartagena, which will organize between November 13 and 19 the Diabetes Society of Cartagena and Region (Sodicar), will be dedicated especially to the woman, municipal sources reported.

Under the slogan 'Diabetes and Women: our right to a healthy future', these days have been presented today by the Councilor for Social Services and Social Mediation, Carmen Martín, who highlighted the important role of women, who usually assume the roleof caregivers of children, parents, husbands and family.

The campaign wants to influence that many women are key in the health care of others, but sometimes it is difficult for them to take care of themselves.Therefore, the importance of informing them about adequate diet, regular exercise and the correct taking of medication for optimal control.

The mayor has also claimed that you have to work fully to create a social awareness and extensive knowledge in society about the disease.

In a sense, the president of Sodicar, María Dolores García, has remarked the need to make visible a condition that affects 30,000 people, of which 30,000 people affected, of which 6 percent do not know that he suffers from diabetes.

Among the scheduled activities, on November 16, the 'Diabetes Information and Early Detection campaign will take place in Juan XXIII square, and a day later free detection tests and retinographies will be carried out at the Santa Lucía hospital.