It is time we got serious about tackling one of Kenya’s silent killers, diabetes. Diabetes remains one of the leading non-communicable diseases (NCD), accounting for 40 per cent of deaths in Kenya annually.
A 2016 report jointly published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and The Lancet indicated that one in every 17 Kenyans has diabetes. The data also indicates that between 650,000 to 1.5 million Kenyans are suffering from undiagnosed diabetes.