LAHORE: Postgraduate Medical Institute & Ameeruddin Medical College Principal Prof. Muhammad Al-Fareed Zafar has disclosed that every 4th person in Pakistan is suffering from diabetes which causes eye problems, heart and kidney diseases.
While addressing the diabetes prevention and awareness seminar at Lahore General Hospital, he called for making concerted efforts for the effective treatment of diabetes and its elimination.
He further said that diabetes is the mother of all diseases that gives birth to countless diseases, pregnant women are not immune from its deadly diseases and the effects of sugar on people who are already in poor health are very deadly.