AGARTALA, Nov 15 (TIWN): Sarkar Diabetes Nutrition Clinic and Research Centre on Saturday celebrated the 25th World Diabetes Day through organizing an awareness rally.

The rally has begin from Muktadhara and travelled across the capital on order to create awareness among the people.

It is a day of celebration for those with diabetes who demonstrate that with access to the right diabetes care, education and essential medicines life can be lived to its fullest, expressed the members.

It has been mentioned by the members that Diabetes is a disease of development. The misconception that diabetes is ‘a disease of the wealthy’ is still held, to the detriment of desperately needed funding to combat the pandemic. In coming years we have much to do in making the case for those who have diabetes now and will have in the future.

During the programme, Doctors present in the programme urged the people to take good care of the health. They also asked to change the life style of the people and be actively concern about their health.

World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness campaign of the diabetes world and is held on November 14 of each year. It was introduced in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization in response to the alarming rise of diabetes around the world. World Diabetes Day is a campaign that features a new theme chosen by the International Diabetes

Each year, World Diabetes Day is centered on a theme related to diabetes. Topics covered have included diabetes and human rights, diabetes and lifestyle, diabetes and obesity, diabetes in the disadvantaged and the vulnerable, diabetes in children and adolescents. People with diabetes get to take a day off work or school on this day and talking about Diabetes.