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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Over 12,000 Kenyans gathered at the Carnivore grounds in Nairobi on Saturday morning to take part in the annual Safaricom Diabetes Walk that is designed to bring awareness to the disease and raise money to supply free insulin to economically disadvantaged children.
The Diabetes Walk is organised by the Kenya Diabetes Management and Information Centre (DMI Centre). Executive Director Eva Muchemi said the fight against diabetes for the young people living with the condition has been hampered by lack of prompt and correct information, prohibitive costs of insulin in private pharmacies and inconsistent supply in public hospitals where insulin is more affordable.
?We have awareness programs in the schools and we have covered about 168 schools with 100 in Nairobi and about 68 in Mombasa with plans of expansion,? she said.
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2012/07/thousands-participate-in-diabetes-walk-in-nairobi/
The Diabetes Walk is organised by the Kenya Diabetes Management and Information Centre (DMI Centre). Executive Director Eva Muchemi said the fight against diabetes for the young people living with the condition has been hampered by lack of prompt and correct information, prohibitive costs of insulin in private pharmacies and inconsistent supply in public hospitals where insulin is more affordable.
?We have awareness programs in the schools and we have covered about 168 schools with 100 in Nairobi and about 68 in Mombasa with plans of expansion,? she said.
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2012/07/thousands-participate-in-diabetes-walk-in-nairobi/
