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Today I want to speak for the voiceless hoping that the concerned parties will hear and take action. I bring to your attention a condition that has been thrown under the carpet for a while—Diabetes.
Wait! You are probably thinking, “I am not diabetic, I don’t need to worry.” Well, you have every reason to worry because diabetes cases are rising at alarming rates. Deaths from the same epidemic have doubled in the past 3 decades. It would help if you were informed because the World Health Organization report of 2016 stated that one in every seventeen Kenyans is diabetic. According to the International Diabetes Federation, there were 458,900 diabetes cases in Kenya in 2017.
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