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On World Diabetes Day a tribute to higher education in health and health care programs for diabetics

 
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The World Diabetes Day sought to raise global awareness to diabetes and its rates of occurrence, which has been increasing around the world, and how to prevent the disease in most cases. The world celebrates this Day on November 14th, and this year's theme is "Go Blue for Breakfast”. This date was set by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization (WHO), to commemorate the birth of Frederick Banting, who contributed with Charles Best in the discovery of insulin in 1922, noting that this substance has become necessary for keeping patients with diabetes alive.

The UAE was able to get out of the list of the most ten countries with diabetes in the world, and ranked thirteenth globally, according to the findings of the International Diabetes Federation last year 2013, after it ranked second globally in diabetes prior to the last two years, and diabetes occurance rate in the State reaches up to 18.98%, and the initial indicators of the study conducted by the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Emirates Diabetes Society and the University of Sharjah, and other specialized bodies, showed a decline in the disease among residents of the State.

Although this disease is known medically as the silent killer, it is considered one of the most influential and damaging non-communicable diseases on the various health, economic, social, and productivity levels, both for the individual and society, which called on all concerned and specialized authorities in the State to fight it and limit its spread, through the implementation of plans, programs and strategies in the short, medium and long term.

The awareness campaign “Diabetes-Knowledge - Action" has been recently implemented, which is the longest public health awareness campaign in the UAE, and it was organized by Imperial College London Diabetes Center, wholly-owned by Mubadala Company. The Campaign came to support following a healthy lifestyle and regulating "Walk" event, which is held annually as part of the award-winning awareness campaign about diabetes "Diabetes-Knowledge-Action".

It is noteworthy that the UAE leadership, represented by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, exerts efforts and provides enormous potential for the development of health education in the UAE, recently embodied by issuing the Cabinet Resolution No. 28 of 2014 by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, on the establishment of the National Institute for Health Specialties, under the UAE University, which seeks to raise the level of awareness of higher medical education and specialized training programs that help develop health care, as well as organizing  specialized training and providing the steps and processes, to ensure the preservation of the quality of clinical education.

Fatima College of Health Sciences has been recently commended by the Minister of Commerce in Sweden for its higher program in diabetes, which is implemented by the College, in collaboration with Malmö University, and Lund University in Sweden, where their faculty members are committed to the implementation and the teaching of this program, through which they focus on the health care of diabetics and the related health and medical complications of the disease.


11/14/2014

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