One of the problems we have in health is that people die because of lack of knowledge, people needs to be informed more on the mechanism and etiology of these diseases in other to fight against it, although it will be difficult to eliminate totally but the target can be drastic reduction. Let us take for example,when i went for a seminar in Nigeria i was opportuned to talk about diabetes mellitus,people asked me some questions that actually made me meet the coordinators and requested for more time so as to make them understand the disease well, they thought diabetes mellitus was only disease of old age, i tried to explain the action of insulin both in type 1 and type 2 and the way type 1 can be linked to genetic factors. They actually thought diabetes only has to do with polyuria until i started teaching them about several complications like diabetic foot, retinopathy, nephropathy and so on. I think world health organization should look into this more.
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This has been one of the main problems of the society and the major cause of increased mortality in a condition that if well managed at an early stage, would not have so much of an effect on the patient. Most people wait to until the complications show up to visit a doctor or get tested.