Ibadan — Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday morning led hundreds of people on road walk for diabetes awareness ...
The significance of this public awareness, championed by a national figure and a former president, cannot be overemphasised. This public declaration by Obasanjo, about his health, when other public figures and politicians would hardly do so, provided more information on diabetes. Another interesting part of that day was when, the former chairman of Diabetes Association of Nigeria (DAN), Professor Sunny Chieneye, in a lecture titled 'Women and Diabetic: Our Right to Healthy Living', called for concerted efforts to check the menace of diabetes.
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