The International Diabetes Federation (IDF), estimates that there are around 387 million patients with diabetes in the world, however, although half of them do not know, every three seconds a diagnosis is diagnosedNew case.
Only last year, diabetes caused 4.9 million deaths, as it is estimated that a person dies every six seconds due to the complications it causes, said IDF president Michael Hirst.
This public health problem, whose prevalence grew 38.7 percent from 2000 to 2014, a period in which there were 150 million patients, is increasing according to this organization, which foresees 592 million diabetics by 2025.
86 percent of diabetics live in developing countries , said Hirst, who added that the increase in the prevalence of the disease is due to unhealthy lifestyles such as food intakenutritious and sedentary lifestyle, which cause overweight and obesity, risk factors to develop this evil.
Diabetes is a "tsunami that will undermine the prosperity of many countries and especially people and their families," said the specialist, who hoped that the United Nations Organization (UN) will approve in September the objectives of sustainable development.
This strategy would be established instead of the millennium objectives that conclude this year and that propose by 2025 by 25 percent the preventable mortality, among which are the complications of diabetes.
In addition, it seeks to ensure that 80 percent of people have access to fundamental medicines."It is about countries starting to implement policies that will lead people to be healthier," he said.
Hirst insisted on the importance of prevention, so he requested that since childhood there is health education worldwide, since diabetes is a condition that is gestated between eight and 12 years before it is diagnosed.
On the other hand, the president of the International Diabetes Federation urged governments to invest in health in order for all diabetics to have access to treatment, especially children who suffer from type 1 diabetes, since in the world they still dieMany not to have enough money for insulin, he added.
For the activist, that a child loses his life for not having access to diabetes medications "is a stain about the conscience of humanity."
"That we never forget that the world is a very unfair place, where there are people who cannot buy the services it needs and the world forgets them," said Hirst.
The specialist reported that to analyze the progress, challenges and medical innovations around this evil, the World Diabetes Congress in Vancouver, Canada, from November 30 to December 4 will be held.
This meeting is intended to raise awareness in governments and parliamentarians on the negative effects caused by diabetes in the economy and the health system, so that they assume that a healthy country is a nation that develops and offers opportunities to its people.
