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| According to WHO statistics, about 8.5% of adults worldwide (422 million people) have diabetes. Photo: AFP / VNA / CVN |
At the conference, Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tiên said that 4% of deaths in Vietnam were due to diabetes. Currently, about 3 million Vietnamese have diabetes. This disease is one of the 10 leading causes of disability among women and men in recent years.
Faced with this situation, Vietnam has taken several measures, said Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tiên, before stressing that her country attaches importance to the application of new technologies in health.
The Minister presented Vietnam's efforts in the organization of online training to improve the professional skills of staff in the health sector, as well as in the design and launch of mobile applications to monitor the health status of employees. patients with diabetes.
Nguyen Thi Kim Tiên also spoke about the information portal dedicated to the Vietnam Health Program, which aims to help citizens to badess risks, implement preventive measures, detect early diseases and take better care of their diseases. health.
"Vietnam wants to cooperate with other countries to share information, apply new technologies, to prevent and fight against noncommunicable diseases, especially diabetes "said Nguyen Thi Kim Tiên.
According to WHO statistics, noncommunicable diseases, including diabetes, are the leading cause of death and disability in the world. WHO recalls that "cancer, diabetes, and lung and heart disease kill 41 million people each year, and account for 71% of all deaths globally, 15 million of which are between the ages of 30 and 70 ". About 8.5% of adults worldwide (422 million people) have diabetes.
At the international conference, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's deputy prime minister and coordinating minister for economic and social policies, called for increased cooperation among nations to prevent and fight diabetes, thereby reducing health expenditures and ensuring social well-being.
VNA / CVN
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