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Every year on November 14, we commemorate World Diabetes Day and in Santa Cruz, the date will not go unnoticed, because the NCD program of the departmental health service is campaigning to teach people to prevent this disease.
From yesterday to the 16th of this month, activities will be carried out in 15 health centers in the capital Santa Cruz. Yesterday, the Japanese hospital had been transferred to the Japanese hospital where he carried out a free measurement of blood sugar (blood sugar level), the weight and height of people, and 425 Millions of people in the world, half of whom do not know how to suffer.
On November 12, the campaign will take place at Bermúdez Health Center. on Tuesday 13, at the centers of Fortaleza, Juana Azurduy and Sagrada Familia; on Wednesday 14, at the National Health Center of Irala Avenue, in San Juan de Dios, at the Percy Boland Maternity Hospital, at the Red Cross (on foot), Víctor Hugo Casal, at Che Guevara, at the Villa Cochabamba (on foot) and Divino Niño (Zumba); finally Friday the 16th in oncology.
Motto: diabetes and family
The theme of this year's World Diabetes Day is diabetes and the family, with the goal of integrating families into the world of patients with this disease.
Angelica Fierro, head of the noncommunicable diseases program, said that in Santa Cruz between 10 and 15 percent of the population suffered from diabetes, while obesity affected 36 percent of the population, its excess of weight up to 26% and hypertension, at 22%.
A survey of risk factors, conducted from 2013 to 2017, showed that there were more sedentary, since only 20% practiced physical activity and the others did not.
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