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Diabetes foot care: Ignorance, poor referral fuel diabetic limb amputations in Nigeria

From the vanguard news article:

Stakeholders have called for more awareness and capacity building to tackle the increasing prevalence of diabetes and its complications even as they identified ignorance and lack of prompt referral as factors fueling amputation among diabetic patients.

The experts who gathered at the 5th annual International Podiatry and Diabetes Foot Care workshop organised by Rainbow Specialist Medical Centre, a private hospital with focus on the management of diabetes and other endocrine and metabolism conditions, in partnership with the World Walk Foundation, Jamaican Chapter, regretted that the podiatry medicine which supposed to focus on foot and ankle disorders are not taught in any Nigerian Universities.

Read more at the link:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/diabetes-foot-care-ignorance-poor-referral-fuel-diabetic-limb-amputations-in-nigeria/

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