The Cartagena Diabetics Association (SODICAR) has organized various awareness activities on the need for early detection and control of that disease on the occasion of the celebration of its World Day, which will take place on November 14.
To do this, the organization will carry out activities from November 8 to 17, within the twelfth edition of its Diabetic week, which this year carries out motto "we protect our future."
The president of the Association, María Dolores García, recalled that the preventive work and social awareness is a constant to sody, which estimates that in Cartagena there are some 30,000 people suffering from diabetes, and some 13,000 do not know that they have that disease.
Therefore, from November 11 to 15, Sodicar will install an information table in the Plaza de Juan XXIII, in which glucose controls will be carried out and information on the control and treatment of that chronic ailment will be offered.
In addition, free ophthalmological and cardiological tests will be carried out, and the stand will remain open from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (on the 11th, it will also open from 5:00 p.m. to 20:00).
Among the planned activities, a theatrical representation will also be organized on November 8 in the CAM culture classroom by the Art Creatio Group.
In the same place, a cycle of conferences will also be held on November 12, 13 and 15 at 7:30 p.m., in which issues such as the microvascular complications produced by diabetes and the practice of sport among diabetics will be addressed.
The central events will take place on November 14, World Diabetes Day, with a concentration at 6:30 p.m. in front of the Consistorial Palace, whose facade will light blue, distinctive of the ailment.
The participants will march from there to the Regional Assembly of Murcia, whose facade will also illuminate, and where they will read a manifesto to raise awareness about their illness.
The activities of the week will conclude on November 17 with a coexistence meal and a concert by the Jass Project Group at the restaurant of the National Museum of Underwater Archeology (Arqua).