99 years, 9 months, 21 days ago,
Leonard Thompson received the first successful injection of insulin, does the world have access to diabetes care.
Around 537 million people are living with diabetes, one out of every 10 people has diabetes and a large number remain undiagnosed.
What is worrying is 4 out of 5 people with diabetes live in middle to lower income countries.
The question is do they have access to healthcare and access to diabetes care.
Look at these figures
It’s 537 million now .
This number is predicted to rise to 643 million by 2030 and 784 million by 2045.

Over 4 in 5 (81%) adults with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries.
Diabetes is responsible for 6.7 million deaths in 2021 - 1 every 5 seconds.Diabetes caused at least USD 966 billion dollars in health expenditure – a 316% increase over the last 15 years.

541 million adults have Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT), which places them at high risk of type 2 diabetes..

World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in
1991 by International Diabetes Foundation and the World Health Organization in response to growing
concerns about the escalating health threat
posed by diabetes. World Diabetes Day
became an official United Nations Day in
2006 with the passage of United Nation
Resolution. It is marked every year on
14 November, the birthday of Sir Frederick
Banting, who co-discovered insulin along
with Charles Best in 1922.

The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021-23 is “Access to Diabetes Care – If Not Now, When?”, putting across the timely message for diabetes care

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