Qatar – MoPH, partners celebrate World Diabetes Day

Qatar – MoPH, partners celebrate World Diabetes Day

(MENAFN- Gulf Times) The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), in conjunction with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) and Sidra Medicine, is celebrating World Diabetes Day 2021 under the theme 'Access to Diabetes Care: If Not Now, When?". As part of its celebration, the MoPH, in co-operation with its partners, is organising a series of activities this month to raise awareness of diabetes. Qatar, with the prevalence of this disease at 17% , has realised the need to develop a national strategy for diabetes to oversee the implementation and facilitate interaction and co-operation between all healthcare providers and involve all relevant governmental and non-governmental organisations in its prevention and improve access to healthcare for those affected, Qatar News Agency reports. In this context, the Qatar National Diabetes Strategy 2016-2022 was launched, and the MoPH and its partners have had made many important achievements through this strategy. Co-chair of the Qatar National Diabetes Committee, and chairman for the Qatar Metabolic Institute, Prof Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra, referred to the pregnancy diabetes screening programme as one of Qatar's achievements in this field, through which gestational diabetes is diagnosed and treated through screening 89% of pregnant women during the first three months