Nigeria: PHC Practitioners for Medical Training in Lagos

6 August 2018

Primary Care Health (PHC) Practitioners who are the first point of call for persons living with diabetes have been penciled to participate in a two-day diabetes and hypertension series from Rainbow Specialist Medical Centre, a private hospital with focus on the management of diabetes and other endocrine and metabolism conditions.

The medical director of the centre, Dr. Afoke Isiavwe, who disclosed this to journalists in Lagos said the rate of amputation among Nigerians living with diabetes has been reported to be as high as 53.2 per cent of the number of people with foot ulcer in some centres.

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