DAWN: Children among 24,000 living with Type 1 diabetes in Pakistan

KARACHI: Highlighting the need to raise public awareness about diabetes, a public health specialist at a programme held on Tuesday at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) shared that the latest international data shows that 24,000 Pakistanis — the majority of them children — currently live with Type 1 diabetes, an incurable autoimmune disease.

Senior consultant diabetes educator Erum Ghaffor has recently been elected vice president of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF). She is the first Pakistani woman to hold this prestigious position, having secured 112 votes from over 270 associations worldwide.

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