He said the project therefore intends to use innovative approaches through education by throwing more light on Type 1 Diabetes and help its patients with access to proper healthcare services for treatment and medication.
“We are of the belief that people living with Type 1 Diabetes must have access to adequate resources for its treatment and health care services. As part of this project, we will be conducting health screenings for the members of the MMDAs selected to identify such cases with the help of Ghana Health Service. We will also educate on how to avoid contracting the Type 2 Diabetes through proper management of our various lifestyles. That patients living with T1D live healthy lives, do proper diabetes self-management well and eventually reduce T1D morbidity in the project districts”.
Health Directors in Suhum and Nsawam municipalities lamented how financial challenges have become barrier to availability and accessibility to insulin for treatment of type 1 diabetes among patients in the municipalities therefore lauded the intervention.
Dr. Abigail Doduwaa Sackey, Eastern Region Non-communicable diseases Coordinator commended Ark Development organization for the project which she says will complement effort by Ghana Health Service in dealing with the rising cases of type 1 diabetes.
She said the health directorate is in the process of establishing more wellness centers across the region to encourage regular testing for non-communicable diseases for early diagnosis and treatment.
The World Health Organization has said, the number of people with diabetes for instance rose from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014.
