Kuwait Grapples with Diabetes

  • 25/01/2025

Minister of Health Dr. Ahmed Al-Awadhi said that diabetes is one of the most important and common chronic diseases not only in Kuwait but also worldwide and is considered the main cause of many serious health complications and the second largest cause after road accidents in amputation of the diabetic foot. 


Minister Al-Awadhi added in his opening speech at the first international conference on advanced diabetes care, organized by Dasman Diabetes Institute - one of the centers of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences today, Friday, that diabetes causes heart and artery diseases, heart attacks, strokes, loss of vision and kidney failure.


 

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