Everywhere of the world the World Day of the Diabetes was celebrated, the most important date to achieve that the population takes conscience about this illness. Organized in joint form by the International Federation of the Diabetes (IDF, by his initials in English) and the World Organization of the Health (WHO), this celebration was carried out last Saturday, the 14th of November.
The World Day of the Diabetes is the most important vehicle for all the countries to achieve that the people know the real magnitude of the problem of the diabetes, an illness that at present affects approximately 220 million persons, according to official numbers published in the web site of the WHO.
Since it could not be otherwise, the General Secretary of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, expressed a message in the frame of the World Day of the Diabetes, which was published entirely in the official web site of the international organism.
The leader said that this illness, characterized for having in the blood the high sugar levels, kills more than one million persons a year, especially in nations about to development, according to the published by the web of the UNO.
According to this web page, Ki-moon expressed that United Nations it offers all his support to the countries that they have to face the problems that the diabetes raises and asked both the international community and the international organisms also to give his support to the developing countries.
To finish this note, it would be good to answer the following question: why is this celebration realized one November 14? It turns out that in the same date, but of the year 1891, the medical Canadian Frederick Grant Banting was born, one of the investigators who discovered the hormone named insulin, who gained some years later the Medicine Nobel Prize for the above mentioned find.
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