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With the current prevalence at 366 million persons living
with diabetes, the importance of Education cannot be overemphasized for persons
living with diabetes and normal individuals. This figure will continue to rise
as a quarter of this number may have diabetes without knowing.
Education is one of the cardinal principles of management of
diabetes, especially prevention strategies. This is important because, the
knowledge about diabetes is dynamic. Most health care professionals were
trained with textbooks whose information is obsolete as year’s progresses.
Diabetes Education as currently outlined in International
Diabetes Federation (IDF) curricula as simplified into Diabetes Conversation
Map Education tool is very handy for not only persons living with diabetes but
healthcare professionals manning the health institutions.
IDF recently commenced a pilot project training facilitators
to incorporate this education tool into existing or non existing education
programme in health care institutions. This noble project needs to be expanded
to cover both public and private hospitals in cities and rural areas.. IDF
alone cannot foot the bills of these training hence the need for Government and
public spirited individuals and organizations to sponsor this project to
rapidly integrate Diabetes Conversation Map Education tool into healthcare
systems especially in sub-saharan Africa and Nigeria in particular.
There are currently three IDF trained Expert trainers on
Diabetes Conversation Map Education tool in Nigeria. They have been involved in
training healthcare professionals from selected institutions to integrate this
tool into the healthcare system. The Ministry of health needs to support this
effort of IDF by collaborating with these trainers to get these trainings to as
many states as possible.
This is important and urgent as we don’t have a current
statistics on the prevalence of Diabetes in Nigeria. It is common knowledge and
observation that many persons especially the working population are coming down
with diabetes, if nothing is done about this, the transformation agenda of the
present Administration in Nigeria will loose the manpower to drive the change.
Isaac Akogu
Conversation Map Expert Trainer
Nigeria.
iakogu@yahoo.com,08037002025
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