World Diabetes Day: North-West Sits On Prediabetes Time Bomb Despite Low Cases — Experts

The National Eye Centre, Kaduna, has commenced activities to mark the 2026 World Diabetes Day with a sensitisation outreach to its host community, warning of rising diabetes cases globally and a looming prediabetes crisis in North-West Nigeria.
A family physician with the Centre, Dr. Patricia Ella Idoko, said the outreach, organised in partnership with Ultimate Health HMO, was part of the Centre’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and a follow-up to an earlier advocacy visit to the palace of the neighbouring community.
Dr. Idoko said the theme for this year’s commemoration is “Early Action on Diabetes,” which focuses on early screening, diagnosis and prevention.
She said activit...