Caharkala/Agency Caucasus – , a war-torn country, has long been stricken with epidemics. An example of this is referred in data from the Chechen National Rescue Committee to as the recent increase in the number of Chechens suffering from diabetes.
The officially recorded 2007 population of entire diabetics was 6508, said Uma Isayeva, a Chechen endocrinologist, who is also a worker of the Chechen Ministry of Health. Isayeva afterwards warned against the increasingly numerical growing rate among the new diabetics when she put it at 8 percent.
As for the current child diabetics population, Isayeva put it at 62. However, she added with emphasis that the number of child diabetics was growing as well. KU/ÖZ/HT
