It was revealed at the inaugural ceremony of the National Association of Diabetes Educators of Pakistan (NADEP) in Karachi that over 200,000 amputations every year in the country are due to diabetes.
Prof Abdul Basit, secretary general of the Diabetic Association of Pakistan, is urging the Government to work for the prevention of the disease that statistics show now affects around five million people in Pakistan.
Prof Basit says that of the five million, two million develop foot ulcers of whom ten per cent, (200,000), end up having their lower limbs amputated.
“It can be prevented”, he said.