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The Diabetic Society of Cartagena and Shire continues the 2013 campaign of information, prevention and early detection of diabetes.
This time, the company is over today in El Corte Inglés (Door C / Jorge Juan corner with C / Ramon y Cajal), which was attended by the Councillor for Health, Ã ngel Nicolas Bernal, Councilwoman Education, Josefa Maroto and Social Care Councilman, Antonio Calderon.
Cartagena City Council is assisting through which it aims to raise awareness about this disease. Discover is if a person is diabetic, while preventing the occurrence of sequelae of this disease themselves, stressed the Councilman.
For his part, the president of Sodicar, Maria Dolores Garcia Cartagena said that there are over 30,000 people with diabetes, and of these, about 13,000 people are unaware they have it.
Members Sodicar volunteers are doing free glucose monitors all people who come to the table, while distributing information about diabetes and its prevention. Addition, conduct a Prediction Test Diabetes Type 2 q ue, with only 6 questions and in two minutes, to estimate the likelihood of developing diabetes in the future.
The campaign started at ten in the morning and will last until eight o'clock.
We headed mainly people aged 45 to 50 who are overweight, stressed Garcia, who pointed out that prevention is always better than cure.
The campaign was made ​​a day before the feast of Padre affluent consumers taking advantage of the shopping center, which is expected to exceed 10,000, as stated Alfredo Carvajal, director of the English Court of Cartagena.
Also, Carvajal stressed that the department stores have a social responsibility to the city, hence the different support campaigns, not only in the field of health, but also in education and sports.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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