Senegal Diabetes: Low Diagnosis Rate in Children
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Undiagnosed Diabetes in African Children: A Growing Crisis
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Dakar – Pediatrician and diabetologist Babacar Niang called on Friday in Dakar for health personnel to increase diabetes screening tests, emphasizing that 20% of diabetic children are not screened in Africa.
“studies show that for one diabetic child recognized in Africa, diagnosed in Africa, there are four others who are not diagnosed. That is to say that there are only 20% of diabetic children who are diagnosed,” he said.
Changing Diabetes in Children Senegal (CDIC) Program
Professor Babacar Niang, coordinator of the Changing Diabetes in Children senegal (CDIC) program, a program for the care and treatment of children living with diabetes, spoke at a press conference as a prelude to World Diabetes Day, on the theme “Diabetes and the workplace”.
The 80 percent of undiagnosed diabetic children on the continent, “we miss them, we leave them,” he said during this meeting organized by the Senegalese diabetic Support Association (ASSAD).
The severity of Type 1 Diabetes
“That is to say, they will die. There are many children, perhaps, who die in health centers, in health posts,” indicated Babacar Niang during this meeting organized by the Senegalese Diabetic Support association (ASSAD).
According to him, the form of the child’s diabetes “is such that it is more severe because it is type 1 diabetes, what we called insulin-dependent diabetes.”
“It is more severe because we say that it is the law of all or nothing. The child,we either diagnose him,we treat him,he survives; or we do not treat him,he cannot survive,” added the pediatrician and diabetologist.
“He is immediately dependent, as much as the adult ca
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