‘Diabetes Now Affects 8% Of Nigeria’s Population’

The national coordinator of the Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Division at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Alayo Sopekan, has disclosed that eight per cent of Nigerians are currently living with diabetes, while 14 per cent are affected by hypertension and about 25 per cent carry the sickle cell gene. Sopekan made the […]

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