UAE Business: Forum launched at Expo to find ways to fight diabetes, obesity – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Forum launched at Expo to find ways to fight diabetes, obesity – Gulf Digital News

Against the backdrop of the alarming rise in the number of patients with diabetes and obesity in the Middle East region, first regional forum of its kind to fight the diseases has been launched at the Israeli Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.

In an Israeli-Emirati cooperation, the forum is being held at the initiative of the Ministry of Regional Cooperation together with the Ministry of Health of Israel and the UAE attended by experts from Israel and the Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and other countries.

Participants of the forum include Issawi Frej, Minister of Regional Cooperation are Nitzan Hrovitz, Minister of Health, Professor Itamar Raz, President of the Israeli Diabetes Council, Dr Abdul Razzaq Al Madani, President of the Diabetes Council of the UAE; and senior officials.

This initiative comes against the growing need to formulate a regional response and a new action plan.

In the past decade, and remarkably in the past two years, the problem of diabetes has become a silent but deadly epidemic just like the corona epidemic, as Israel, the UAE and Bahrain have recorded diabetes patients at rates higher than the OECD countries, nearly 10% of patients in Israel, 15.6% in Bahrain, and 16.3%