Today is World Diabetes Day, organized by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO).
This year's theme is “Let's keep an eye on diabetes”. Locally, the Saint-Martin Santé association and the Louis Constant Fleming hospital are offering this morning, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., information and prevention stands at the hospital and at the vocational high school in Concordia. At 18 p.m., make way for sporting activity with a blue zumba in front of the hospital. Almost 422 million people are diabetic, according to the first WHO global report on diabetes, published on World Health Day. By 2030, "this disease could become the 7th leading cause of death in the world". _EH
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