Diabetes is a "global epidemic" that should motivate "street manifestations", according to experts
Four million people die every year in the world because of this disease and world expenditure on health care is around 378 billion."In 2030 the expense will amount to 490 billion on the planet. In Europe 630,000 people die every year," said the president of the FID, Jean Claude Mbanya, at the inaugural conference of the XXII Congress of the Spanish Society of Diabetes
Malaga (16/25-4-11) .- "Diabetes is a global epidemic out of control," said the president of the International Diabetes Federation (FID), Jean Claude Mbanya, at the inaugural conference of the XXII Congress of theSpanish Diabetes Society (SED) held in Malaga.
According to Mbanya, four million people die every year in the world because of this disease and world expenditure on health care is around 378 billion."In 2030 the expense will amount to 490 billion on the planet. In Europe 630,000 people die every year, although the capital of diabetes is the Middle East."
"A disease that causes half a million deaths every year in the world should cause manifestations in the streets, especially since most of those deaths can be prevented," said Mbanya."Give your children the possibility of having grandchildren, especially in poor and developing countries," the Cameroonian insisted.
He highlighted resolution 61/225 of the United Nations in which diabetes is recognized as an "chronic, weakening and expensive enmarket that is associated with great complications that represent serious risks for families, countries and the entire world."
Mbanya stressed that there are currently "a unique global opportunity" in view of the declaration of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, in the Davos World Economic Forum: "The UN Committee on Non -Transmissible DiseasesThat it will be held in New York in September 2011 is our opportunity to negotiate an international committee that placed non -transmissible entrepreneurships on the unreasonable agenda, where they belong. "
One of the objectives that will be proposed to the Non -Transmissible Diseases Committee is to reduce deaths due to 2% pathologies every year and implement a strategy to reduce childhood obesity, among another 34 recommendations.
Diabetes detection before people manifest the disease is one of the keys to the future, according to the person in charge of the FID.
Mbanya detailed the actions of the FID to combat this disease, such as collaboration with WHO, the support of projects in poor countries and in developing roads that are less likely to access international funds and education, among others.In the short term, the Global Plan against Diabetes 2011-2021 and a rapid action plan for poor countries and developing countries will be presented.
For his part, the president of SED, Manuel Aguilar, recalled during the inauguration of this Congress that his organization is a "pluriprofesional" society constituted by psychologists, chemicals, family or endocrinologists."Thirst has doubled its partners in three years and has 1,600 members in Spain. We want to vote on the FID and the proposals presented at the inaugural conference. Within the role of thirst is to sensitize the health authorities in thePreparation and development of diabetes care programs. "
The managing director of the Andalusian Health Service, José Luis Gutiérrez Pérez, confessed that someone in his position "should scare" diabetes for the amount of health resources it implies, the consequences it has in the population, the importance of the combination ofgenetic factors with the acquisition of the diseaseaccording to habits and the importance of prevention.
Gutiérrez Pérez pointed out three challenges for this Congress: reinforce integrality in the pathology, guide the solutions to "the most effective cost" and "separate the dust from the straw looking at the results and forget the procedural and professional struggles."
