At the JDCA we have always believed that a cure will be the best and most effective way to prevent diabetes related complications, but as many point out, it is also important that we keep ourselves healthy while we wait and search for a cure. That is why reports such as this – that reveal that 24,000 out of the 70-75,000 people who die of diabetes every year in England could have been saved with better management, are extremely distressing and sad.
The Department of Health in England called it an “unacceptable death toll” and blamed low quality of care provided to some patients for the results. It also shared that almost a third of diabetics in the country do not even realize they have the condition. The 24,000 deaths could have been prevented by basic health checks and patients following a healthier diet and taking their medication. The report claimed that the risk for Type 1 patients of dying was 2.6 bigger than the general population.
These are very troubling statistics indeed, especially considering we are talking about a country with supposed high-quality patient care like England. It goes to show that we should certainly be improving efforts to educate people and give them the tools to manage their disease, but with the expanding diabetes population worldwide, we need a cure like never before. Unless we can find a way of eliminating the complications associated with the disease, mainly a Practical Cure, we are faced with a very harsh future.
It is not a cause to lose hope – it will only make the day that we do discover a cure all the greater. We need to hope and fight for a better future for all diabetics, and we can do that by uniting together and demanding change.
– Stoyan
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