World Diabetes Day: Parents Urged To Prioritise Their Wards’ Health

Parents have been advised to monitor their children health to reduce infant diabetes as many were enlightened about the ailment.

Prof. Adesina Olubukola, the Chairman Medical Advisory Committee of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan gave this hint, while addressing the children living with diabetes during the 2024 world diabetes day held in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Prof. Olubukola, while speaking with the children, urged them to make proper use of the prescribed drugs and that they should not be too far from their medical consultant who are ready for them at any time.

She also told them not to see their ailment as a stumbling block that will distract them from becoming successful in life, and prayed that they will all live long to achieve their desired goals in life.

While welcoming the children living with diabetes to the 2024 diabetes day with the theme: “Diabetes and Well Being,” Dr. Oluwakemi Ashubu a paediatric expert, also advised the children not to see their predicament as a life terminator, but to see it as their ladder to progress in life.

While thanking the various groups that have been donating to the children, she disclosed that a child living with diabetes will require the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand naira monthly to manage the ailment and she then called on wealthy Nigerians to assist in the area of donating insulins and other vital needs to manage the ailment.

The medical expert also warned the children to desist from any food or drinks that is forbidden for them and that they should eat more of fruits and vegetables.

The CEO of Hands of Love Family Mrs. Gloria Omozele Ukagwu, who also made distance sensitisation treck with the children, called on governments at all levels to improve health facilities, most especially the ones that concern the children whom she described as leaders of tomorrow.

Mrs. Ukagwu also used the medium to mark her birthday with the children through cash gifts and donated drinks and biscuits worth several thousands of naira.

-Kunle Bakare.