KemiO
Moderator
Healthbox, a health oriented group has disclosed at a ‘Workplace and Wellness Conference’ organized recently in Lagos that if left unchecked, about 500 million people in the world will be living with diabetes in 2023.
A health activist and Chief Executive Officer of Healthbox, Adaobi Ogudo, in her speech, explained that over 370million people in the world already have diabetes and if nothing is done to save the situation the number will increase to 500million.
She added that the conference was timely and important in a society like Nigeria were people have ill health due to poor health care, poor eating habits in the workplace which has contributed to the prevalence of the disease.
This conference, first of its kind by Healthbox, is scheduled to hold twice a year in Lagos and Abuja to create awareness and proffer solution on how to exterminate these problems.”